Mexico
CONVOCATORIA A LAS JORNADAS POR LA VIDA DE AZQUELTÁN
A los pueblos indígenas de México y del mundo
Al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
A los colectivos, organizaciones y redes de resistencia de todos los continentes
A la sociedad civil solidaria con la vida de nuestro pueblo
Desde la Comunidad Indígena Autónoma Wixárika y Tepehuana de San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, municipio de Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, hacemos un llamado urgente, nacido del dolor, de la rabia y de la memoria viva de nuestro hermano y autoridad agraria Marcos Aguilar Rojas, asesinado el 26 de noviembre de 2025, y de nuestro compañero Gabriel Aguilar Rojas, gravemente herido en la misma agresión.
Considerando:
Que nuestra palabra nace en un tiempo oscuro. El ataque que arrebató la vida de Marcos no fue un hecho aislado: es la consecuencia directa de décadas de agresiones armadas, invasiones de nuestras tierras comunales, ataques paramilitares, amenazas y una estructura completa de complicidad e impunidad, tal como lo demuestra el documento que hemos hecho público.
Que la comunidad enfrenta hoy un peligro extremo. Los caciques y sus grupos de agresores —los pistoleros de antes y los pistoleros de ahora— se siguen reuniendo, patrullan nuestros caminos con total impunidad, protegidos por operadores judiciales, policías y funcionarios que bloquean investigaciones, encubren crímenes y garantizan la continuidad de las agresiones.
Que la violencia no es nueva ni aislada: es una estrategia de despojo territorial, que busca exterminar a la comunidad para apropiarse de miles de hectáreas comunales que, desde tiempos inmemoriales, pertenecen a nuestro pueblo.
CONVOCAMOS
a las
JORNADAS POR LA VIDA EN AZQUELTÁN
a realizarse del 6 al 10 de diciembre, con actividades en distintos territorios y geografías:
6 de diciembre
Rueda de prensa
En la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara.
Concentración: 12:00 horas
7 de diciembre
Velada por Azqueltán
En la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara.
Concentración: 18:00 horas, llevar veladoras
10 de diciembre
Movilización en la Ciudad de México
Movilización para acompañar a la comunidad de Azqueltán
Concentración: Torre del caballito, 11:00 horas
10 de diciembre
Movilización en la ciudad de Guadalajara
Concentración: El Santuario, 11:00 horas.
Convocatoria a la Acción Global
Llamamos a los pueblos originarios conscientes, a los colectivos y organizaciones de derechos humanos, a la sociedad civil nacional e internacional, a realizar acciones dislocadas en sus territorios, plazas, centros comunitarios, universidades, embajadas o consulados, del 6 al 10 de diciembre, para hacer resonar nuestras exigencias fundamentales y registrando las acciones que se vayan a realizar, a través del correo electrónico cnicomunicacion@gmail.com
Justicia para Marcos y Gabriel.
Castigo a los responsables materiales e intelectuales, y garantías de no repetición.
Seguridad para la comunidad de San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, mediante la presencia permanente de cuerpos de seguridad federales que eviten nuevos ataques armados.
Urgente titulación de los Bienes Comunales, que el gobierno federal de México asuma su responsabilidad histórica y titule de forma definitiva los terrenos comunales de San Lorenzo de Azqueltán.
Desmantelamiento de la red de impunidad que protege a asesinos, invasores y caciques responsables del despojo, la violencia y la muerte.
Atentamente
Diciembre de 2025
Porque nuestra lucha es por la vida,
Por la memoria y por la tierra comunal.
Porque Marcos vive en cada paso que damos.
Comunidad Indígena Autónoma de San Lorenzo de Azqueltán
Congreso Nacional Indígena
Report from the First Civil Observation Mission in Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, identifies crimes against humanity, ethnocide, and ecocide committed against the community
Presented on Saturday, November 29 to the community of Eloxochitlán in Spanish and Enna (the Mazatec language). The report is the result of the Observation Mission carried out in July of this year by an interdisciplinary group.
It concludes that the community is the victim of crimes against humanity which, being systematic and prolonged for a decade, constitute a case of ethnocide aimed at destroying the forms of organization and life of this Mazatec community. The ethnocide of the community of Eloxochitlán seeks to undermine community resistance to extractivist activities that have caused the ecocide of the Xangá Ndá Ge River and the destruction of the community’s right to self-determination:
– In this regard, arbitrary detentions, prolonged pre-trial imprisonment, political criminalization, forced displacement and ethnocide, as well as gender-based violence, were detected.
– Regarding the plundering of the Xangá Ndá Ge River, hydrological alterations, contaminating agents, and desiccation were identified, in addition to damage to flora and fauna.
This compilation of documentation seeks to be taken to international bodies, as it argues that there are no legal conditions in place to guarantee the protection of the community’s rights. Acts of aggression, political persecution and criminalization have resulted in 50 direct victims and at least 500 indirect ones.
The documentation collected identifies governors, agency heads, and magistrates as responsible actors, who—with the backing and complicity of the State—have contributed to the denial of justice, persecution, and fabrication of case files.
Likewise, it states that the Huautla Court bears the greatest responsibility by allowing omissions and practices that favor local strongmen, as it has rejected acts of torture substantiated under the Istanbul Protocol, obstructed legal processes, criminalized community authorities, carried out arbitrary detentions, and manipulated testimonies.
Through a timeline of events, the report describes the process of aggression the Mazatec community has endured, including military intervention, intimidation, torture, dispossession, home raids, threats, and abuses of authority. Many of these forms of violence predate 2014, as multiple formal complaints had been filed since 2011, none of which advanced due to omissions by the Huautla court.
In recent weeks, Oaxaca governor Salomón Jara has labeled Eloxochitlán a “red zone,” attempting to portray it as a violent community—a smear strategy taking advantage of his authority and media reach to support the strongman Manuel Cepeda in the municipal elections of November 23, where he received the second-highest number of votes.
The presentation also served as a space for community reflection, where a message was directed at those who continue to push the narrative of “a conflict between two families,” a simplification of the severe attacks carried out in complicity with the three levels of government. They responded that Eloxochitlán is made up of many families with different surnames, a small town where it is common to share last names.
Many women, as shown in the Radio Zapote broadcast that day, stated their last names. Those who spoke were mothers, wives, and sisters of former political prisoners and persecuted individuals since 2014, who had to leave their homes to dedicate themselves to the struggle for their relatives’ freedom—working the land those relatives once worked to feed their children, sleeping on the streets during sit-ins such as the one maintained for over two years outside the Supreme Court of Justice in Mexico City, while waiting for the justices to take up the case.
The report concludes that, given the incompetence of the Mexican justice system in guaranteeing minimum conditions of safety, justice, and respect for the human rights of the persecuted community of Eloxochitlán, the case must be brought before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and calls for precautionary measures for all persons at risk, as well as specific protective measures for indirect victims.
The preparation of this report marks an important precedent in the forms of resistance against State injustices and violations toward Indigenous peoples. The Mazatec women comrades are an example of how to confront impunity and criminalization; their struggle for freedom has been arduous and is not yet over.
As they have done in recent years, the Mazatec women for freedom again extend their invitation to the “Internationalist Faena to End Criminalization,” which will take place from December 3 to 4, 2025, in Mexico City in front of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, and on December 3, 4, and 5 outside UN Women at Calzada General Mariano Escobedo 526, Anzures neighborhood, Miguel Hidalgo.
