16/01/2014
31 January: Communal authorities from four municipalities of the Costa Chica region who had for more than three weeks taken up arms to directly confront organized […]
In this timeline, we do not claim to cover the entire history of Guerrero, but instead intend to give some key elements that may facilitate a better understanding of recent developments. Since the 1960s, the state of Guerrero has been characterized by high indexes of poverty, social disintegration, organized crime, corruption, repression and impunity. During this time, the state of law was constantly violated and state crimes were committed that have still not been punished. We decided to take this watershed moment of the 1960s and the so-called “Dirty War” as a starting point to this chronology. In it, we will focus on the main problems, consequences and responses by the population throughout time.
11/01/2013
9 January: The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) releases a preliminary report detailing the failures of the authorities involved in the acts of December 12, […]
03/01/2012
9 January: members of the Council of Ejidos and Communities Opposed to the La Parota Dam (CECOP) reinstall the blockade in the community of Parotillas, to […]
03/01/2011
5 January 2010: Agents of the Ministerial Investigative Police detain Rodrigo Morales Valtierra, member of the community radio Radio Ñomndaa “The voice of water,” in Xochistlahuaca. […]
04/01/2010
22 January 2009: The five incarcerated members of the Indigenous Me’phaa Peoples Organization (OPIM), accused of killing Alegandro Feliciano on January 1st 2008 , file for […]
02/01/2009
7 January 2008: Residents of the communities of Atoyaquillo and Pasto Real, including widows, mothers and survivors of the Aguas Blancas massacre, protest in front of […]
02/01/2008
6 January 2007: David Salgado Aranda, from the municipality of Tlapa, dies when struck down by a tractor while picking tomatoes in fields run by the […]
02/01/2007
19 January 2006: the Unitary Agrarian Tribunal in Acapulco, Guerrero, resolves to cancel the San Marcos Assembly that was held on August 23, 2005, because of […]
02/01/2006
6 February 2005: The PRD candidate Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo wins the election for governor of Guerrero with 55% of the vote. The PRI candidate takes 42% […]
03/01/2005
14 January 2004: municipal police officers from Zapotitlán Tablas (Montaña) torture and kill 18-year-old Sócrates Tolentino González Genaro. They take advantage of the fact that the […]
02/01/2004
13 May 2003: militants from the PRI affiliated to the organization Campesino Torch and The Revolutionary Agrarian League of the South Emiliano Zapata (LARSEZ) engage in […]
02/01/2003
16 February 2002: Valentina Rosendo Cantú, an indigenous Tlapaneca, is interrogated, threatened, beaten and raped by members of the 41st Infantry Battalion in Barranca Bejuco, Montaña […]