Gregorio Alvarado was a teacher, poet, father, and Indigenous social leader who was forcibly disappeared along with his family, after months of surveillance & persecution in September 1996.
“In 11 years we have documented at least 76 murders and 25 disappearances; while the Mexican State has shown an attitude of complete indifference towards the desperation of Indigenous peoples.”
To build peace in Guerrero, criminal structures must be dismantled; it is a legal imperative to prosecute those who threaten the lives and safety of people and to guarantee the protection of communities and families subjected to criminal violence.
The towns of Xicotlán and Tula were occupied by the criminal group after four days of attacks, displacing over a thousand people.
On December 2, 1974 the rural teacher, guerrilla & founder of Mexico’s Party of the Poor died during a confrontation with the Mexican military in a coffee-growing jungle of El Otatal.
A Sunday tribute by the Morena state government to the murderous architect of the state’s Dirty War, responsible for thousands of deaths & disappearances, has provoked a furious response.