The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project has posted on social media:
“We express our concern about the situation in Takuro, Michoacán, pointed out in the urgent action disseminated by Red TDT and Red Solidaria DH
From PBI Mexico we are following up and monitoring the context to support the defenders we accompany.”
That Urgent Action highlights:
“At approximately nine o’clock in the morning on Sunday, November 23, Leovigildo Molina Elías, defender of the territory, and Agustín Martínez Rojas, belonging to the P’urhépecha Community of Takuro, were murdered. They were killed while they were in the OXXO of the gas station located in the Community of Carapan, Municipality of Chilchota, Michoacán. They had previously been threatened, as had several community members of Takuro, by a group antagonistic to the community and its traditional authorities.”
Among the demands noted in that Urgent Action is: “Grant collective protection measures from the Federal Mechanism for community authorities, land defenders, and local communicators.”
The Human Rights Solidarity Network (Red Solidaria DH) is accompanied by the Peace Brigades International.
