24/01/2024
The aim of this chronology is not to cover the complete history of Oaxaca, but rather to explain key elements in order to provide an understanding of recent events.
09/02/2023
17/01/2022
12/01/2021
23/01/2020
January 6: Community elections are held in San Dionisio del Mar a month after reports of tension within the municipality and after the suspension of the […]
14/01/2019
22/01/2018
17/03/2017
January 10 and 11 : Agrarian authorities, communities and NGO participate in the Caravan of Civil Observation and Solidarity for Chimilapasto San Francisco de La Paz community, […]
15/06/2016
22/01/2015
January 7: The spokesperson for the Dutch pension fund PGGM, confirms that the transnational corporation Mareña Renewables plans to cancel the wind-energy megaproject it has intended to build […]
16/01/2014
14 January: the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Tehuantepec Isthmus (UCIZONI) denounces the constant death-threats directed against Juan Carlos Beas Torres. […]
25/01/2013
13 January: the state congress of Oaxaca unanimously approves the Law for the Defense of the Human Rights of the People of Oaxaca. 18 January: at […]
03/01/2012
11 January: Alba Cruz, lawyer and human-rights defender in Oaxaca, receives an intimidating text-message to her cellular phone. The message was sent from the same number […]
03/01/2011
13 January: Members of the mediation commission between the Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) and the federal government decide to reactivate and enlarge the commission in an […]
04/01/2010
10 January: Ruben Valencia Nuñez, member of Oaxacan Voices Building Autonomy and Liberty (VOCAL), part of the APPO, is the subject of an attempted assassination in […]
02/01/2009
30 January: Rosalino Díaz Barrera, a campesino from San Blas Atempa is kidnapped by a group of municipal police in a patrol vehicle. The next day […]