Francisco Cerezo of the Cerezo Committee in Mexico has posted on social media:
“We share with you the photos of the Labor Human Rights Schools ‘Ricardo Flores Magón’, which are held in CDMX [Mexico City] and Toluca. Where we continue with the objective of the people to know more about their labor human rights, know how to exercise and defend them in an organized manner.
This joint effort by the OLEP [Organization for the Struggle for Popular Emancipation] and the Cerezo Mexico Committee is carried out completely free of charge and with the solidarity of the people.
Decent work, fair pay and social security!”
Ricardo Flores Magón
Britannica explains: “Ricardo Flores Magón (born September 16, 1873, San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico—died November 21, 1922, Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S.) was a Mexican reformer and anarchist who was an intellectual precursor of the Mexican Revolution. Flores Magón was born to an indigenous father and a mestiza mother. …In 1918 he was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 and mailing indecent material—namely, various articles from Regeneración. Flores Magón was imprisoned for almost 8 of his 18 years in exile. In 1922 he was found dead in his cell at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. Officially, he had died of a heart attack, though it was speculated that he had been murdered by prison guards or died of medical neglect. After supporters transported his body to Los Angeles, Mexican railway workers paid to send Flores Magón’s body to Mexico City, where thousands of people carrying anarchist red-and-black flags attended his funeral.”
Photo: Ricardo Flores Magón.
PBI-Canada meets Cerezo Committee
On February 26, 2026, PBI-Canada coordinator Brent Patterson met with Francisco Cerezo Contreras of the Cerezo Committee along with PBI-Mexico advocacy coordinator Manuel Jabonero Prieto.
As noted on the Comite Cerezo website: “We are a solidarity collective of volunteer work, dedicated to the defense of the Human Rights of victims of repression for political reasons in Mexico.” Their Facebook page also notes: “We are an independent organization that defends and promotes human rights in Mexico since August 13, 2001.”
The Comité Cerezo was founded after the arrest of three Cerezo brothers, Alejandro, Héctor and Antonio. They were sent to a maximum-security federal prison, suffering physical and psychological torture. Francisco, family members and allies formed the Comité Cerezo to fight for their liberation.
This PBI project information bulletin that interviewed Francisco in March 2005 notes: “PBI has been accompanying Emiliana and Francisco Cerezo Contreras, members of the Cerezo Committee, since February 2002.”
You can find out more about the work of the Cerezo Committee from their website and on Facebook and X.
