2021
17/01/20222021
17/01/20222021
January 2: Nahua indigenous people from 23 towns in the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez, in the Upper Mountain of Guerrero, makes a road blockade between Chilapa and Hueytenango after receiving new threats from the criminal group “Los Ardillos”.
January 21: The Mountain Human Rights Center “Tlachinollan” and the International Peace Brigades-Mexico organize a virtual event with relatives of victims of disappearance, with the aim of informing international actors about the human rights situation in the state.
February 8: in the capital of the state of Guerrero, workers of the Ministry of Health hold a march to demand a halt to the violation of their labor rights. They are removed by riot police and members of the National Guard.
February 8: environmentalist farmers from 32 towns and ranches in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan, ask President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to investigate the participation of alleged elements of the Army who, together with a criminal group, harass the communities and exploit the wood from the forests of the Guajes de Ayala ejido.
February 11: Mixtec priest Mario Campos Hernandez, parish priest of Xalpatláhuac in the municipality of Tlapa, Guerrero and promoter of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities – Community Police (CRAC-PC) dies, victim of COVID.
March 8: “A rapist will not be governor” is the slogan in the march #8M referring to Morena’s candidate, Félix Salgado Macedonio.
March 9: the displacement of around 800 residents of the 1,600 that make up the 32 communities of the Guajes de Ayala ejido is reported, due to the violence from criminal groups in the mountains of the municipality of Coyuca de Catalan.
March 14: Amuzgo ejidatarios from Xochitlahuaca, Guerrero, issue a statement entitled “FOR THE REJECTION OF THE HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT.”
April 4: Carlos Marques Oyorzábal, a campesino ecologist, defender of the forests of the Sierra de Guerrero, and municipal commissioner of the town of Las Conchitas, in the municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, is tortured and murdered.
April 18: the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) expresses its preoccupation after the statements made by the former governor of the state of Guerrero, Angel Aguirre Rivero, in relation to the defender Vidulfo Rosales Sierra, member of Tlachinollan and lawyer for the mothers and fathers of the 43 Ayotzinapa student teachers disappeared in 2014.
April 16: Members of the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero-Emiliano Zapata (Cipog-EZ) are shot in Chilapa. Cipog point to the narco-paramilitary group “Los Ardillos” as responsible for the aggression.
April 21: the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center launches the “Campaign for Life: Sea of Grievances, Mountain of Ruptures”.
May 4: the Governing Board of the Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists expresses its concern at the situation of violence that prevails in the region of Tlapa, Montaña de Guerrero.
May 12: an observation mission is carried out by national and international organizations in response to the situation of violence in the Montaña de Guerrero region.
May 21: Marco Antonio Arcos Fuentes, forest defender and commissioner of Jaleaca de Catalan, is murdered by an armed group in Chilpancingo
May 28: due to the situation of violence in the Montaña Baja region, there will be no elections in 24 communities.
June 1: Ejidatarios of Naranjito, La Parota and Santiago Zacatula, block access to the Plutarco Elías Calles thermoelectric plant, owned by the CFE, to denounce and demand a stop to the pollution generated by the plant located in Petacalco.
June 7: Morena’s candidate, Evelyn Salgado Pineda, wins the gubernatorial elections.
June 15: Julio Cesar Coctecon, commissioner of the community of Acatempa, municipality of Tixtla and also part of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities-Community Police (CRAC-PC), is murdered.
June 15: the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reports on the identification of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, of the remains of another of the 43 student teachers from Ayotzinapa.
June 16: the former commander of the Ministerial Police of the Guerrero State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Humberto Velazquez Delgado, ‘El Guacho’, is executed by an armed group.
June 28: the Sierra del Sur Campesino Organization (OCSS), members of social organizations, campesinos, student teachers from Ayotzinapa along with relatives of the victims march to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the Aguas Blancas massacre.
July 3: State police break into the home of Julio Zubillaga, director of the Diario de la Tarde newscast, without authorization.
July 25: Mario Casarrubias Salgado dies from COVID-19. He is considered one of the founders of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos, linked to the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural School.
August 6: Moises Brito Bautista is murdered. A key piece of investigation in the Ayotzinapa case is lost due to this murder.
August 8: community members along with representatives of social organizations and opponents of La Parota Dam march through the streets of Acapulco to demand the presentation of Vicente Suastegui Muñoz, who is reported missing since August 5th.
August 14: nine days after the member of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposing the La Parota Dam (CECOP), Vicente Suastegui Muñoz, was deprived of his liberty by armed men, a brigade search him in key points around Acapulco, Guerrero
September 9: Nahua communities of the municipalities of Chilapa de Alvarez and Jose Joaquin de Herrera, in La Montaña Baja of Guerrero block access to their territory to demand the three levels of government address the situation of violence and insecurity that is happening in the area
October 6: the armed group Los Tlacos sends a message to the mayor of Iguala, David Gama Perez, in which they warned that they will control public security in the municipality and threatens to murder officials of the new municipal administration.
October 11: relatives and compañeros from La Montaña Popular Front march in Tlapa de Comonfort to demand justice in the case of the disappearance and subsequent murder of activist Arnulfo Ceron Soriano, two years after the events.
October 15: Evelyn Salgado Pineda takes office as Governor of Guerrero. She appoints associates of her father, Felix Salgado to her cabinet.
October 20: The Human Rights Commission of the State of Guerrero publishes a statement condemning the femicide of two minors that occurred on October 18 in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres.
October 22: Civil organizations demand to eradicate sale of minors for Forced Marriage.
October 28: inhabitants of the mountain communities: Metlatonoc, Tlapa, Malinaltepec and San Luis Acatlán ask AMLO to attend various issues to have a dignified life.
November 17: Visit by UN Committee against Forced Disappearance in Guerrero.
December 12: Salvador Catalán Barragán, a professor at the Autonomous University of Guerrero, is found dead after four armed men deprived him of his freedom.
December 16: within the framework of its twenty-seventh anniversary, La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center presents its annual work report “Your Name Which I Never Forget”.