PBI-Mexico accompanies the March of National Dignity: Mothers Searching for their Sons, Daughters, Truth and Justice

PBI-Mexico has posted: “Mexico for #Mother’s Day, searching mothers gather across the country demanding justice and truth for the thousands of disappearances faced by Mexico. From @PBI_Mexico we accompanied marches and rallies in Mexico City, Morelia and Cuernavaca.” The Spanish news agency EFE reports: “Thousands of mothers marched this Saturday, Read more…

PBI-Mexico and PBI-Spanish State highlight accompanied defender Margarita López on Voices of the Earth podcast

PBI-Mexico has posted on social media: “Magui from the @Ejido El Bajío spoke about the struggle for her territory in Sonora against mining projects on the #Voices of the Earth, podcast of @Carne Cruda [raw meat] radio. long with her, testimonies of women defenders from Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colombia were Read more…

Mexican environmental defender Suástegui Muñoz who opposed the CFE La Parota dam and challenged the Navy-backed Maribús project is killed

The Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre has posted on social media: “After Marco Antonio Suástegui Muñoz, historical leader of CECOP, was attacked by a gunman when he was leaving Icacos beach, today we unfortunately received the news that he lost his life, after 8 days in the hospital in Acapulco trying Read more…

PBI-Mexico calls for an end to the criminalization of 24 Indigenous land defenders opposed to Tehuantepec megaproject

Photo: The press conference in front of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Photo by La Marea. La Jornada reports: “In the context of World Mother Earth Day, more than 20 Indigenous, environmental and human rights organizations demanded this Tuesday [April 22] in a statement an end to Read more…

PBI-Mexico accompanied Ejido El Bajío stands in solidarity with Ejido Carrizalillo in struggle against Canadian mining company

Photo: Partial view of the Equinox Gold Los Filos mine in Guerrero. The Ejido El Bajío in Sonora has posted on social media: “We stand in solidarity with #EjidoCarrizalillo in their fight against the Canadian company #EquinoxGold which is waging a campaign of violence against the community to impose a Read more…

PBI-Mexico expresses concern about threats against Nahua defender and FPDTA-MPT member Miryam Vargas Teutle

Video still: PBI-Mexico with Miryam Vargas Teutle, December 2023. PBI-Mexico has posted: “From @PBI_Mexico we express our concern about the threats against the defender and communicator Miriam Vargas Teutle, member of @fpdtampt [the Peoples Front in Defence of Land and Water in Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala] and Radio Cholollan. We call Read more…

PBI-Canada monitoring and amplifying PBI-Mexico’s accompaniment of organizations, defenders and communities

Photo: On March 20, 2025, PBI-Mexico accompanied the People’s Front in Defence of Land and Water at  a protest in Mexico City calling for the closure of a landfill. The Cuernavaca, Morelos-based Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project currently accompanies six organizations. They are: 1-The People’s Front in Defence of Land and Read more…

PBI-Mexico accompanies protest at Profepa as the people of Cholula demand the closure of the Calpan landfill

PBI-Mexico has posted on Facebook: “Today marks one year since the struggle of the Cholultec peoples in Puebla against the intermunicipal sanitary filling of San Pedro Cholula – Calpan. Yesterday, Thursday, March 20, PBI accompanied Frente De Pueblos Morelos Puebla Tlaxcala in the CDMX, in a peaceful protest demanding compliance Read more…