@EDUCA Irma Galindo Barrios, a member of the Mixtec indigenous people, was forcibly disappeared on October 27, 2021. She was protecting the Ñuu-Savi communal forest from deforestation. October 27, 2026, marks five years since her disappearance. Galindo is from San Esteban Atatlahuca in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca. Since 2018, she had been subjected to

@EDUCA Twenty-eight indigenous communities from six municipalities in the Sierra Mixe-Zapoteca, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, agreed to maintain the unity of their movement to demand that the state and federal governments fulfill the commitments they have made regarding infrastructure, basic services, and attention to their territories. During a regional assembly held on October 25

On the Día de los muertos (day of the dead), the Oaxaca-based organization EDUCA honors those who paid with their lives for their beliefs. Its monitoring report, “Todos sus Nombres, Todas sus Luchas,” documents 70 murdered human rights defenders and 7 people who were forcibly disappeared during the first 25 months of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s

@La Jornada Since October 18, 2020, Amuzga lawyer Kenia Hernández has been in prison in Mexico. It has now been six years. She occupied toll booths to protest in defense of the land, the territory, and the rights of Indigenous women. She was sentenced to a total of more than 20 years in prison. In