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Interview 22: Alejandro Solalinde

Father José Alejandro Solalinde Guerra is the coordinator of the south-eastern zone for the Pastoral Dimension for Human Mobility and director of the Hermanos en el Camino Migrant Shelter in Ciudad Ixtepec, (Oaxaca). The shelter provides humanitarian assistance for migrants, as well as legal support for those victims of kidnapping or robbery. In May this year, the National Migration Institute accused the priest and the Honduran Jeimy Celenia Moncada, before the National Attorney General's Office of the trafficking of minors. Father Solalinde believes that the INM was attempting to undermine his moral authority. PBI interviewed him in September 2010.

Interview 22: Alejandro Solalinde (pdf 847 KB)

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Interview 21: Cedhapi Zimatlan

Since March 2010, the indigenous community of Zimatlán de Lázaro Cárdenas, Mixteca region (Oaxaca), has suffered acts of aggression from an armed group based in the neighbouring community of San Sebastián Nopalera. The attacks arise from a land-based conflict between the two communities. In response to the serious security situation, on August 2010 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights granted precautionary measures to guarantee the life and physical integrity of the members of the community of Zimatlán. PBI interviewed Rufino Benítez, lawyer and acting president of the ´Centre for Human Rights and Legal Advice for Indigenous People'. This organisation provides legal support to the inhabitants of Zimatlán.

Interview 21: Cedhapi Zimatlan (pdf 458 KB)

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Interview 26: Report Santo Domingo Ixcatlán

On the 30th of April, 2008, the small community of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, located in the Mixteca region of the State of Oaxaca, southern Mexico, was shaken by the news of a triple homicide. Amnesty International reported that dozens of armed men headed by the former Mayor of Ixcatlán, Freddy Eucario Morales Arias, brutally murdered three members of the community: Gustavo Castañeda Hernández, Melesio Martínez Robles and Inocencio Medina Bernabé.

Interview 26: Report Santo Domingo Ixcatlán (pdf 1.5 MB)

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Report 26 Santo Domingo Ixcatlán

On the April, 30 2008, the community of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, located in the Mixteca region (Oaxaca), was shaken by the news of a triple homicide. María de la Luz Martínez states that “we’ve been fighting so that the (other) 12 arrest warrants are carried out, but no one else has been detained yet. There haven’t been enough advancements to acquire justice”.

Report 26 Santo Domingo Ixcatlán (pdf 1.5 MB)

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Entrevista 24: Flor y Canto

In August 2010, PBI accompanied the Flor y Canto Centre for Indigenous Rights and the Coordination of the United Peoples for the Defence of the Water in their Civil Observation Mission “Water is life, let's defend its existence”. PBI subsequently interviewed Yanet Ambrosio Ambrosio, Legal Coordinator, and Cinthia Méndez Mota, Operative Team Coordinator, of Flor y Canto.

Entrevista 24: Flor y Canto (pdf 1.7 MB)

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Entrevista20 Freedom of Expression

The Special Rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression from the Inter American Commission for Human Rights, Dr. Catalina Botero Marino, and the Special Rapporteur from the United Nations for Freedom of Expression Dr. Frank La Rue visited Mexico from August 9th to 24th. In this context, PBI interviewed two journalists who work in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca: Juan Angulo Osorio and Pedro Matias. Juan Angulo Osorio is the Director of the newspaper ‘El Sur de Acapulco’. Having written an article, ‘The lines of investigation: The Counterinsurgency’, which analysed the assassination of PRD Congressman Armando Chavarria Barrera, the State Attorney General of Guerrero ordered his detention and interrogation. Pedro Matias is a well-known Oaxacan journalist who writes for the local daily ‘Noticias’, as well as the national magazine ‘Proceso’. Having been kidnapped and subjected to physical aggressions in 2008, Pedro went to live in Germany. However, he recently returned to Oaxaca where he continues his work as a journalist.

Entrevista20 Freedom of Expression (pdf 1.4 MB)

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Entrevista 19: Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno

After being held in prison for 16 months, accused of the murder of Indymedia cameraman Bradley Roland Will, Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno was released on 18 February 2010. However, Mr. Martínez Moreno and his family continue to suffer threats and harassment. They have been granted precautionary measures by the Mexican National Human Rights Commission, and have requested precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

Entrevista 19: Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno (pdf 842 KB)

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Interview 4: Comité de Liberación 25 de Noviembre

Justice for Juan Manuel. On October 16th, 2008 Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno was detained by the National Attorney General's Office, and accused of participating in the murder of U.S. reporter Bradley Rolland Will, killed on October 27 2006. The Comité de Liberación 25 de Noviembre defends the innocence of Martínez Moreno, and has taken on his legal defense.

Interview 4: Comité de Liberación 25 de Noviembre (pdf 1.7 MB)

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Interview 3: Tepeyac

Indigenous Rights and Wind Farms in the Tehuantepec Isthmus. The case of San Mateo del Mar, a community affected by the construction of a wind farm, is a vivid example of the agrarian conflicts and demands for legal recognition of agrarian rights that continue to be problematic in many indigenous communities.

Interview 3: Tepeyac (pdf 1.2 MB)