2022

January 17: Mateo Benítez Palacios, better known as “El Gordo”, is arrested for allegedly being involved in the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa.

January 25: A balance of the first 100 days of Evelyn Salgado’s government is presented with no evident progress so far during her management as state governor.

January 27: The Emiliano Zapata Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero (CIPOG-EZ) denounces the disappearance of two indigenous people from Chilapa and members of the organization since January 25, 2022.

January 31: More than 800 members of the National Guard and Guerrero State Police prevent the parents of the 43 disappeared students of the Ayotzinapa Rural School from protesting in Palo Blanco.

February 3: Within the framework of the 50^th anniversary of the murder of Genaro Vázquez Rojas, thousands of people mobilize to demand an end to violence and impunity, among others, in the state of Guerrero.

February 23: Defender Kenia Hernández is sentenced to 10 years in prison.

March 30: The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) of the IACHR presents its Third Report with the findings of the investigations it has carried out into the disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa.

May 4: an investigation into the murder of the defender of the rights of the Afro-Mexican people, Luis Ortiz Donato, which occurred on April 28, 2022 is demanded.

May 19: The first national meeting of displaced persons is held in Chilpancingo. Victims of forced displacement from Chiapas, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Quintana Roo and Mexico City participate.

June 3: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issues a statement on the criminalization that is being carried out against human rights activists and defenders in Mexico, mentioning the case of human rights defender Kenia Hernández.

June 3: The Truth Commission for the Investigation of Human Rights violations during the Dirty War that occurred between the sixties and seventies in Guerrero (COMVERDAD), presents the second edition and the digital version of the final report on its activities .

June 8: 24 years of the El Charco massacre are commemorated.

June 21: The Emiliano Zapata Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero (CIPOG-EZ) denounces that the criminal group “Los Ardillos” attacked the Tula and Zicotlán communities in the municipality of Chilapa de Álvarez, using exclusive Army weapons and explosives launched from drones.

June 24: Dirty War military archives are opened; Indignation is generated at the inclusion of the name of the involved dead soldiers in the monument to the fallen.

June 29: Alarming increase in violence in the state is observed with more than 200 deaths in Acapulco in the last 6 months.

June 29: 27 years of the Aguas Blancas massacre in which 17 peasants were murdered in that area of the municipality of Coyuca de Benítez by members of the State Motorized Police and judicial agents are commemorated.

August 1: Priest Felipe Vélez Jiménez is attacked: a group of men shoot him while he was driving from Chilapa to Chilpacingo.

August 3: The 19^th anniversary of the creation of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposing the La Parota Dam (Cecop) is commemorated in Acapulco.

August 5: the arbitrary detention and threats against Marco Antonio Suástegui at the Acapulco Regional Prosecutor’s Office are denounced. Those facts happened while he was requesting information on the investigation into the disappearance of his brother Vicente Suástegui.

August 8: First year of the disappearance of the defender of land and water Vicente Suástegui, in Acapulco. He was captured by armed men while driving his taxi.

August 19: Relatives of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa, who disappeared in Iguala in 2014, meet at the National Palace, accompanied by their lawyer Vidulfo Rosales, with the aim of learning about the progress of the investigation that would be presented by President Andrés Manuel López.

August 24: Communicators march to denounce the murder of journalist Fredid Román in Chilpancingo.

September 15: José Luis Abarca, former mayor of the municipality of Iguala, is acquitted for his alleged participation in the disappearance of the 43 students of the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa, in 2014.

September 20: the relatives of the 43 disappeared students from Ayotzinapa inform that they have not been informed about the recent advances in the investigations for this case.

October 6: Armed groups open fire against the presidential facilities and the house of the mayor of San Miguel Totolapan, killing him as well as his father and 18 city council officials.

October 13: Three years have passed since the disappearance and murder of the Human Rights defender Arnulfo Cerón. Relatives and his colleagues from the Frente Popular de la Montaña call on civil society organizations to maintain unity and persevere in the search for justice.

October 21: NGO denounce that social activists and human rights defenders are under threat from the Army.

October 24: The 27^th anniversary of the creation of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities – Community Police (CRAC-PC) is commemorated.

November 4: The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) affirms that 181 of the 467 arrests presented by the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa case (Covaj) in its report in August 2022 “are not true, since they do not guarantee its originality and therefore cannot be considered as reliable digital proof”.

November 8: Three members of the Guerrero Emiliano Zapata Indigenous and Popular Council (Cipog-EZ) are assassinated in Chilapa de Álvarez.

November 16: Journalist Clever Rea is the victim of arbitrary detention, injuries, threats to his integrity, and mistreatment by elements of the Guerrero state police in Atoyac.

December 6: Guerrero is the second most dangerous state for the defense of human rights in Mexico, with 25 murders of defenders.

December 9: The Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposing the La Parota Dam (CECOP) demands the immediate release of two of its members, Modesto and Rodrigo León Jacinto, who were arbitrarily detained and tortured by the ministerial police on December 1 in the community of Huamuchitos.