2023

January 2: La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center publishes a bulletin entitled “Between Ephemeral Spectacle and Permanent Violence” in which it contrasts the “golden dream that thousands of national and foreign tourists enjoyed” on New Year’s in Acapulco and the violence that is experienced in the periphery and other regions of Guerrero.

January 11: journalists protest in Chilpancingo and Acapulco to demand that the federal and state governments intensify the search for journalist Jesus Pintor Alegre and the administrators of the Facebook page, Fernando Moreno and Alan Gracia.

January 24: he Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (CMDPDH) presents its latest report “Episodes of Forced Internal Displacement in Mexico 2021”. In the case of Guerrero, the most affected state at a national level, there were seven episodes of displacement, 1,793 displaced people and at least six affected municipalities

February 4: the organization Decade Solidarity Network against Impunity (Red Solidaria Década Contra la Impunidad) denounces that its executive secretary, Maria Magdalena Lopez Paulino, had received an “intimidating and threatening” message through social networks from an anonymous account.

February 19: as part of Army Day in Mexico, around 150 relatives of victims of the Dirty War protest in front of the facilities of the Six^th Battalion of Combat Engineers, in Chilpancingo. Their demands: that the Mexican Air Force disclose the names and the number of people who were thrown into the sea on the death flights ; and punish those who ordered these actions that, they estimate, led to the disappearance of more than 600 people.

February 21: La Montaña Tlachinollan Human Rights Center presents its XXVIII report entitled “43: The Shipwreck for the Truth”, referring to the case of the forced disappearance of 43 students from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa in Iguala in September 2014.

March 1st: a sentence of 20 years in prison and removal from office is handed down against Hugo Humberto García de Leon, second sergeant of the Mexican army infantry, for the crimes of torture , rape, robbery and forced entry committed against Ines Fernandez Ortega, a Me’phaa indigenous woman from the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, 21 years after the crime.

March 22: nine police officers are detained for the Ayotzinapa Case – “Scapegoats”, say Relatives.

April 15 : The 38^th assembly of the Regional Council of Agrarian Authorities in Defense of the Territory (CRAADET) takes place in San Luis Acatlán. Around 150 people belonging to 22 agrarian nuclei participate in this assembly and agree to protect the rivers and prevent the deterioration of biodiversity.

April 28: Tierra Caliente and Northern Region Mayors meet governor Evelyn Salgado over insecurity in the state.

June 21: the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) once again requests and obtains arrest warrants for 16 soldiers allegedly involved in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

June 21 to 23: eight bodies and 70 skeletal remains are located in clandestine graves in the region of the Mountain of Guerrero.

June 25: Gualberto Ramírez, ex official of SEIDO is arrested accused of torture in the Ayotzinapa Case.

June 28: relatives of Arnulfo Ceron launch campaign to demand justice following postponement of initial hearings.

July 6: A march is held in Tlapa de Comomfort to demand justice for Gaspar, a boy who was killed by a stray bullet.

July 12: President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) speaks about the acts of violence that occurred in previous days in the capital of Guerrero, Chilpancingo, acknowledging that the violence in this state “is not going to magically disappear.”

July 15: the journalist Nelson Matus Peña is shot to death in the port of Acapulco. He was editor of the Lo Real de Guerrero website, a reference for the police news in Acapulco and Guerrero.

July 25: the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (IGIE) formed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to follow up on the Ayotzinapa case presents its sixth and final report.

July 31: members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposing La Parota Dam (CECOP) commemorate its 20^th anniversary since the beginning of its fight against the La Parota hydroelectric project, which is intended to be built on the Papagayo River.

5 August: Two years after the disappearance of Vicente Suástegui, relatives and organizations demand that the defender who is a member of the CECOP be brought back alive.

August 17: Three members of CIPOG-EZ disappear on their way to Chilapa.

September 26: On the 9^th anniversary of the disappearance of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal Rural School in Iguala, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) assures that a “thorough” and “serious” investigation is being carried out. The day before, nevertheless he held a meeting with parents of the missing student teachers that ended in a disagreement.

October 15: the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities – Community Police (CRAC-PC) celebrates its 28^th anniversary, in the municipality of Tlacoapa.

November 9: Ayotzinapa relatives denounce obstruction of justice to IACHR.

November 28: Four reporters are shot at in Chilpancingo.

December 10: Community authorities from 112 towns in the municipalities of Heliodoro Castillo and San Miguel Totolapan, report the kidnapping of 18 inhabitants of the Barranca de Velazquez, Coronillas and San Bartolo communities in the Sierra de Guerrero by an armed group belonging to the “Familia Michoacana.”