2025

February 20: the criminalization of members of CRAC-PC is denounced.

February 28: Claudia Sheinbaum announces new investigation team for Ayotzinapa Case.

March 8: Thousands of women march on 8M.

April 18: Marco Antonio Suastegui Muñoz, leader of the CECOP is wounded in Acapulco.

April 25: Marco Antonio Suastegui, leader of the CECOP, dies following gun attack.

May 8: more than 500 community members from the CECOP, the Guerrero State Coordinator of Education Workers (CETEG), the CRAC-PC, and other groups march in Chilpancingo to demand justice for the murder of Marco Antonio Suastegui Muñoz.

May 8 and 11: Samantha Valeria Colon Morales, wife of Vicente Suastegui Muñoz, a missing member of the CECOP, receives death threats on Facebook.

June 3: the former Iguala mayor Jose Luis Abarca Velazquez is acquitted in the Ayotzinapa case due to the finding that there was insufficient evidence to link him to organized crime and aggravated kidnapping after denying the injunction filed by the parents of the 43 students. He will remain in prison serving a 20-year prison sentence for murder. He is also facing prosecution for money laundering and public health offenses.

July 16: Rosendo Gómez Piedra, head of the Special Investigation and Litigation Unit for the Ayotzinapa Case (Ueilca), resigned after just over two years in the position. This was demanded by the victims’ families.

July 28: An event is held to celebrate the 22^nd anniversary of CECOP.

July 29: Ayotzinapa families claim lack of clarity in the new government strategy.

August 20: one month after the murder of environmentalist Sergio Hugo Ureiro Castañeda, a member of the movement in defense of the Los Cantaros Plaza in the municipal seat of Tlapa de Comonfort, a march is organized to demand justice.

August 30: groups of relatives of missing persons, victims of violence, and human rights defenders march in Acapulco and Chilpancingo to commemorate the International Day of the Victims of Disappearances.

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.

September 27: demonstrations are held to continue demanding justice 11 years after the murder of three students and the disappearance of 43 from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College in Ayotzinapa.

October 5: journalists from various media outlets in the city of Iguala request the intervention of President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo after reporting that members of organized crime operating in the area had threatened to kill them if they published information related to the shooting of lawyer and activist Anselmo Bautista Martinez on their media or social media. Martinez died as a result of the attack.

October 7: more than 300 people in the town of Mezcala, Eduardo Neri, bid farewell to Father Bertolo Pantaleon Estrada, who had been the pastor of this same church for the past eight years. He was murdered after being missing for a few days.

October 15: the 30^th anniversary of the CRAC-PC is celebrated amid the continued criminalization of its members.

October 31: A group of authorities and community police officers from CIPOG-EZ and CRAC-PC-PF are attacked by the criminal group Los Ardillos, according to the National Indigenous Council (CNI). In the last ten years, 66 people have been murdered and 23 more have disappeared due to drug-related violence in this area.

November 10: Relatives of victims and representatives of civil and social organizations condemn the event organized by the Guerrero government, headed by Evelyn Salgado of the Morena party, in homage to the former governor of Guerrero, from 1975 to 1981, Rubén Figueroa Figueroa, the “Tiger of Huitzuco”, singled out for his actions in the context of the Dirty War in the state.

December 3: approximately fifty reporters demonstrate in front of the National Guard (GN) headquarters in Chilpancingo to support Alexsa Bello, a crime reporter who was verbally assaulted by a member of the institution while covering the discovery of three bodies on the Autopista del Sol near the capital of Guerrero.