2024

January 5: Citizens and the Mixtequilla Civil Resistance block the La Ventosa-Mixtequilla highway for two days, demanding transparency about the “Polo de Bienestar” industrial park that the federal government plans to install in Mixtequilla.

January 8: 36 indigenous and agrarian communities of the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca brought together in the Union of Communities of the Sierra Juárez (UCOSIJ) demand that Governor Salomón Jara Cruz repeal the law that seeks to privatize ejido and communal lands for the benefit of megaprojects.

January 10: The Oaxaca Congress elects Michel Julián López as the new head of the Oaxaca Commission for the Search for the Disappeared.

January 27: Members of the Peaceful Civil Resistance of Mixtequilla are arrested after their demonstrations against the imposition of a “Development Pole”.

January 27: A demonstration against gentrification and dispossession is held in Oaxaca City. Six activists are arrested and released 24 to 48 hours later. The protest, under the slogan “Oaxaca is not a commodity,” criticized the increase in the cost of living and territorial dispossession.

January 30: David Hernández, Zapotec defender and opposition leader to the Interoceanic Corridor, is found guilty of the crime of damages. The Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of the Isthmus denounces the criminalization of its leadership against the industrial park in Puente Madera.

February 7: David Hernández Salazar is sentenced to 46 years and six months in prison, a fine and a payment for damages.

February 7: A young woman is murdered in Miahuatlán. With that, 13 cases of murders of women have been registered since the beginning of the year and 122 crimes against women in the administration of Governor Salomón Jara.

February 14: Elements of the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) and the state police violently evict almost 50 retired railroad workers, who were protesting on the tracks of the interoceanic train in Matías Romero on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Two railroad leaders are arrested.

March 18: Palemón Vásquez Cajero, a teacher in section 22 of the CNTE and an activist for indigenous education, is murdered in the community of Santa Elena Comaltepec, in the municipality of Jamiltepec.

April 3: 11 Zapotec communities from the Central Valleys of Oaxaca and organized in the No to Mining Front for a Future for All achieve the outright suspension of mining concessions in their territories, affected by the “San José” mining project of Fortuna Silver Mines (FSM) in San José del Progreso.

April 21: The National Network of Indigenous Women Lawyers expresses its concern about the recent designations of indigenous candidacies since it observed a “utilitarian tendency of identity through qualified self-ascription.”

May 27: The Committee for the Integral Defense of Human Rights Gobixha AC (CODIGODH) denounces the raid and robbery of its offices in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez.

June 13: After 10 years of preventive detention and a long struggle by the Mazatecas for Freedom collective and inhabitants of Eloxochitlán in Flores Magón, Alfredo Bolaños, Fernando Gavito and Francisco Durán, obtains is freed.

July 18: Lorenzo Santos Torres, a community defender from Santiago Amoltepec, his wife and daughter are ambushed, executed and burned to death en Ejutla de Crespo, in the southern highlands region of the State of Oaxaca

September 11: The Center for Human Rights and Advice to Indigenous Peoples (Cedhapi) reports that human rights defender Daniel Bautista Vásquez was found dead in Villa de Etla. He had been missing since August 31, 2024 in Tlaxiaco.

September 25: Municipal and agrarian authorities as well as members of the No to Mining Front for a Future for All demand that PROFEPA carry out an expeditious and thorough investigation into the El Coyote River and sanction the mining company Cuzcatlán, which, they say, is responsible for a new spill from the dam.

October 4: Mixe lawyer Sandra Domínguez Martínez and her husband disappear in the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca. They were last seen in the community of María Lombardo, municipality of San Juan Cotzocon.

November 5: sisters Adriana and Virginia Ortiz Garcia, indigenous Triqui defenders, are shot dead in central Oaxaca de Juarez, when they were intercepted by two men on a motorcycle as they arrived at their home.