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Legal Situation of Indigenous anarchist Miguel Peralta Betanzos
What is currently happening?
Indigenous Mazatec community organizer and anarchist, Miguel is one of 35 members of the community assembly of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca, who have faced political persecution and/or imprisonment following a campaign of cacique repression, torture, and terror which came to a head in December 2014.
October 2019. After just over four years and five months in prison on fabricated charges, following growing pressure from the streets and almost a month on a hunger strike, Miguel is freed from prison.
March 2022. The Supreme Court of the State of Oaxaca revokes his freedom ordering a new arrest warrant, again imposing a 50-year prison sentence, forcing him to flee from his community.
August 2022. Los Otros Abogadoz, Miguel’s legal defense team, file an appeal against the resolution.
September 2023. The magistrate judges resolve the appeal, returning his legal process to the cross-examination stage, rolling it back more than seven years, which again he would have to face from inside prison.
His legal defense team files for revision, soliciting the Supreme Court of the Nation (SCJN) to review and rule on the appeal.
January 2024. The Supreme Court of the Nation accepts to review the appeal and has three months to rule on the case.
The legal situation of Miguel Peralta is still unresolved. He continues being persecuted by the state, subject to a legal process orchestrated and controlled by politician Elisa Zepeda Lagunas in coordination with other state authorities. We demand that the Supreme Court take account of the different human rights violations that have maintained the compañeros of Eloxochitlán imprisoned and persecuted for more than nine years. We demand a sentence of absolute freedom for Miguel.
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"Marines and state police removed 50 retired railroad workers who were protesting on the train tracks in Matías Romero, Oaxaca. Two of their leaders were detained at kilometer 204 at the site called 'La Abuela Santa Ana.'
"From an early hour, the former railway workers took over the tracks of the Interoceanic Corridor train to demand negotiations and a dignified retirement and to denounce a lack of attention from the federal government."
Yesterday, Indigenous Binnizá activist David Hernández Salazar, from Puente Madero, Oaxaca, was found guilty of "attacks on public thoroughfares" and "fire damage." He will be sentenced on February 7.
For three years, the community of Puente Madero resisted the imposition of an industrial park on their communal lands as part of the neoliberal TransIsthmus Corridor megaproject. Along with Hernández, 16 other members of the community have arrest warrants out against them.
In June 2023, a court ordered the suspension of the construction of the industrial park. Ongoing repression and criminalization against Puente Madero has been the state's response to the community's legal victory.
In one weekend the government of Oaxaca detained 13 activists and defenders
"Two events occurred this weekend: a protest in Mixtequilla, Oaxaca, and another in the state capital. In both, activists and territorial defenders criticized megaprojects and dispossession: one (the one in the Isthmus) denouncing the imposition of an industrial park for the Interoceanic Corridor. The other, in the capital, against the gentrification that makes life more expensive and displaces the inhabitants who have lived there all their lives.
"In both cases, too, the state government repressed the protests, and even used the National Guard in the Isthmus of Tehuabntepec. The result: 13 activists and defenders arrested for exercising their right to protest."
On January 27, nine members of the community of Mixtequilla, Oaxaca, most of them elderly, were arrested protesting the construction of an industrial park on their community's lands as part of the neoliberal TransIsthmus Corridor.
In a vindictive move, on February 2, a judge ordered all nine to remain in jail until the end of the legal proceedings against them.
Statement from the Group of Solidarity with Miguel Peralta to mark nine years since the attack on the community assembly of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, and the subsequent state repression, political imprisonment, and persecution carried out against the community
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Two Indigenous Mazatec political prisoners from Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Herminio Monfil and Jaime Betanzos, have been ordered released after spending more than nine years in prison without trial.
Three political prisoners remain: Fernando Gavito, Alfredo Bolaños and Francisco Durán. As well as the return of dozens of displaced from the community of Eloxochitlán and an end to the political persecution of Miguel Peralta.
The attacks on the communal organization of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón have been ongoing for over a decade, overseen by the Zepeda cacique family, one of whom, Elisa Zepeda Lagunas, is currently Secretary of Women in the Oaxaca state government.
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Car-ramming attacks on Indigenous Binnizá territory defenders in Puente Madera, Oaxaca, results in the death of one - Juan Cortés Meléndez - and the injury of three others.
The community of Puente Madera has been steadfast in defending their communal lands against the construction of an industrial park as part of the Interoceanic Corridor megaproject.
Polychrome urn Post-Classic 1200-1400 earthenware, pigments - Mixtec, Oaxaca, Mexico
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