2025

January 17: the repression of residents protesting against the installation of a garbage dump is condemned by civil organizations.

January 21: Arnoldo Nicolas Romero, ejidal commissioner and defender of Tehuantepec Isthmus, is murdered.

February 9: Agricultural authorities in the Central Valleys reject the Zapotec Road Corridor.

February 13: Three members of the Ucizoni are murdered in San Juan Mazatlán.

February 24: Ucizoni closes its offices over insistent threats in the conflict zone between Santo Domingo Petapa and San Juan Mazatlan.

February 28: Cristino Castro Perea, member of the Barra de la Cruz Environmental Defenders collective, is murdered.

March 4: a march is held to demand progress in the investigations that lead to the whereabouts of Sandra Domínguez.

March 8: Police attack women with rubber bullets and tear gas during a march for the 8M.

March 11: Defender Silvia Perez Yescas of the Ciarena organization denounces being victim of threats and displacement.

April 3: Indigenous Mazatec photojournalist and communicator David Peralta is attacked and his documentary equipment is stolen

April 10: the Second Forum in Defense of Territory and Social Property is held in Oaxaca en Santa María Atzompa.

April 22: organizations demand an end to the harassment and criminalization of communities who oppose the imposition of the Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor.

April 22: Emelia Ortiz Garcia, Triqui Defender, reports burglary.

April 28: after six months searching the bodies of Mixe Indigenous activist and lawyer Sandra Estefana Dominguez Martinez and her husband, Alexander Hernandez Hernandez, are found in Veracruz. They had been missing since October 8th, 2024, shortly after Sandra reported Oaxaca government officials for gender-based violence against Ayuuk Indigenous women.

May 26: 33 civil society organizations present a report denouncing the serious human rights crisis in Oaxaca.

June 15: Lilia Gema Garcia, mayor of San Mateo Piñas, is shot dead.

June 20 to 22: the First Civil Observation Mission is carried out in Eloxochitlan de Flores Magon, in which the criminalization and judicial persecution, with more than 200 arrest warrants issued against 56 people are documented.

June 22: Zapotec journalist Ignacio Santiago reports the arbitrary detention of two of his bodyguards by State Police officers in Juchitán.

June 25: A second raid on Ciarena’s offices is reported.

July 15: 20 organizations and collectives in Oaxaca publish a statement regarding the alarming crisis facing youth in the state.

July 15: Federal forces harass Othón Vargas, a member of the Ciarena A.C. organization, at his home.

July 17: more than 40 social and union organizations meet to participate in the ‘’Assembly for Reconstruction of Social Movement in Oaxaca’’.

August 9: more than 150 representatives of Indigenous communities and 17 social organizations conclude the “Regional Forum: Defense of Territory and Autonomy against Megaprojects,” held in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec.

August 15: members of various social organizations hold a demonstration in Oaxaca City to demand the release of environmental defender Pablo Lopez Alavez, a native of San Isidro Aloapam, Sierra Norte, who has been imprisoned for 15 years for defending his community’s land and natural resources.

August 26: Journalist Álvaro Medina Sánchez, director of the digital media outlet Correo Mixteco, reports that he was the victim of an attack and attempted theft of his work equipment by the brother of Yessica Cruz Ortiz, municipal president of San Andrés Dinicuití.

Agust 30: in observance of the International Day of Disappearances, search groups and civil society organizations marched in the capital of Oaxaca to denounce the lack of sensitivity and indifference of the authorities.

September 13 and 14: in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, a regional meeting is held that brought together more than 30 ejidos (common lands), communities, and organizations from Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Chiapas to discuss megaprojects in Indigenous territories.

October 19: Journalist Francisco Abigail Hernández is the victim of threats and information blockade by members of the Municipal Police and the Secretariat of the Navy while carrying out journalistic coverage in the Isthmus.

October 30: Oaxaca leads the list of states in terms of violence against human rights defenders; 29.4% of the murders in the last year occurred in this state according to the monitoring of “All Their Names, All Their Struggles 2025”.

November 11: Various social, academic and community organizations hold the Citizen Open Parliament Forum under the slogan: “For the water legislation that Mexico needs” in Oaxaca, calling for the full recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples to water.

November 25: Within the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, women’s actions are organized to highlight the violence they experience and endure in their territories.

November 30: Cándido Santiago, leader of the Triqui people and member of the Independent Triqui Unification and Struggle Movement (MULTI), is assassinated.

December 13: Members of the Ñuu Savi, Nahua and Ingiwa peoples come together to participate in the Information Forum on the dangers of mining in the towns of Oaxaca and Puebla in the Mixtec municipality of Chazumba, within which they reject the extractive model.