Mexico

Photo: Manuel Jabonero (PBI-Mexico), Mariana Villarreal (REDETI) and Brent Patterson (PBI-Canada) remember Julián Carrillo on Parliament Hill, October 24. This past week, Mariana Azucena Villarreal Frías, the Chihuahua-based coordinator of the Network in Defence of Indigenous Territories of Sierra Tarahumara (REDETI), was in Ottawa. She was accompanied by Manuel Jabonero Read more…

Mariana Azucena Villarreal Frías of the Network in Defense of Indigenous Territories of Sierra Tarahumara (REDETI) will be in Ottawa this coming October 24 to 29. REDETI has highlighted: “The lack of legal recognition of ancestral lands is one of the causes of the dispossession of the Indigenous peoples of Read more…

To join a webinar that will look at the connections of TC Energy and CPKC Rail to the Interoceanic Corridor megaproject, click here. Following the participation of PBI-Mexico in the Civilian Observation Mission to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, PBI-Canada is looking at the role of Calgary-based CPKC Rail in the Read more…

On August 30, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “PBI accompanies relatives of victims in Chihuahua while placing plaques with the names of 202 people whose families @CEDEHM [the Centre for Women’s Human Rights] accompanies.” As noted on the CEDEHM website: “Initially, our work focused on accompanying women and their daughters and sons seeking Read more…

The Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project is seeking field volunteers for a one-year term to accompany human rights defenders. The application deadline is August 20. For more information about how to apply, click here. After a pre-selection process, a personal online interview will take place. There will then be a training Read more…

Video: PBI-Mexico speaks at the observation mission media conference, July 27. PBI-Mexico recently participated in an international observation mission that documented abuses against Indigenous territorial defenders opposed to the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus (CIIT) megaproject in the state of Oaxaca. On July 27, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “PBI accompanies the observation Read more…

On June 30, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “URGENT. They have just arrested defender Alejandro Torres Chocolatl, from Zacatepec, Puebla. Member of the FPDTA-MPT, guardians of the Metlapanapa River and Pueblos Unidos. At PBI we call for the State to guarantee their protection immediately.” Periodico Central further reports: “Relatives of Alejandro Torres Chocolatl, Read more…