Mexico
After 12 Hours of Containment, Riot Police Lift the Blockade on the Mazatecas for Freedom Sit-in
Twelve hours passed (11 a.m.) since the containment carried out by the riot police under Mexico City Head of Government Clara Brugada, who prevented the arrival of the “Internationalist Faena for the End of Criminalization,” convened by the Mazatec Women for Freedom. This day of protest and outreach had been called in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN). This is the first Internationalist Faena held in Mexico City to demand justice in response to the 200 fabricated arrest warrants issued earlier this year against more than 56 members of Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Oaxaca. It was not until 9 a.m. that Pino Suárez Street was cleared by the riot police, thanks to the pressure exerted by organized communities in Mexico City, activists, and independent media who mobilized in response to the repression.
The riot police units—now called Special Task Groupings—that participated in this repressive operation were: Centauros, Marcopolos, Faunos, and Ateneas. Throughout the containment, they continued issuing threats and harassment against activists and journalists, while also hiding the identifying name tags they are required to wear on their vests to avoid being reported for their repeated violations of operational protocol.
The program of the Internationalist Faena continues in front of the SCJN entrance. The public is invited to attend today’s activities starting at 4:00 p.m., and tomorrow, December 4, starting at 12:00 p.m.; forums, graphic presentations, documentary screenings, musical performances, and more will take place. The full program can be found on the social media pages of Mazatec Women for Freedom and the Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón political prisoners.
CALL TO THE MOBILIZATION IN DEFENSE OF LIFE IN AZQUELTÁN
To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To the collectives, organizations, and networks of resistance on all continents
To the civil society in solidarity with the life of our people
From the Autonomous Indigenous Wixárika and Tepehuana Community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, municipality of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, we issue an urgent call, born from the pain, the rage, and the living memory of our brother and agrarian authority Marcos Aguilar Rojas, assassinated on November 26, 2025, and of our compañero Gabriel Aguilar Rojas, gravely injured in the same attack.
Considering:
That our words arise in a dark time. The attack that took Marcos’s life was not an isolated incident: it is the direct consequence of decades of armed aggressions, invasions of our communal lands, paramilitary attacks, threats, and a full structure of complicity and impunity, as demonstrated in the document we have made public.
That the community faces extreme danger today. The caciques and their groups of aggressors —the gunmen of the past and the gunmen of the present— continue to gather, patrol our roads with total impunity, protected by judicial operators, police, and officials who block investigations, cover up crimes, and guarantee the continuation of the attacks.
That the violence is neither new nor isolated: it is a strategy of territorial dispossession, aiming to exterminate the community in order to seize thousands of hectares of communal lands that, since time immemorial, belong to our people.
WE CALL FOR
THE DAYS FOR LIFE IN AZQUELTÁN
to take place from December 6 to 10, with activities in different territories and geographies:
December 6
Press Conference
Guadalajara International Book Fair
Gathering: 12:00 p.m.
December 7
Vigil for Azqueltán
Guadalajara International Book Fair
Gathering: 6:00 p.m., bring candles
December 10
Mobilization in Mexico City
Mobilization in support of the Azqueltán community
Gathering: Torre del Caballito, 11:00 a.m.
December 10
Mobilization in the city of Guadalajara
Gathering: El Santuario, 11:00 a.m.
Call for Global Action
We call on conscious Indigenous peoples, human rights collectives and organizations, and national and international civil society to carry out decentralized actions in their territories, plazas, community centers, universities, embassies, or consulates from December 6 to 10, to amplify our fundamental demands.
Please register the actions to be carried out by writing to: cnicomunicacion@gmail.com
Justice for Marcos and Gabriel.
Punishment for the material and intellectual perpetrators, and guarantees of non-repetition.
Safety for the community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, through the permanent presence of federal security forces to prevent new armed attacks.
Urgent titling of the Communal Lands, for the federal government of Mexico to assume its historic responsibility and definitively title the communal lands of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán.
Dismantling of the network of impunity that protects the murderers, invaders, and caciques responsible for dispossession, violence, and death.
Respectfully
December 2025
Because our struggle is for life,
For memory and for the communal land.
Because Marcos lives in every step we take.
Autonomous Indigenous Community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán
National Indigenous Congress













