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On April 29 2014, human rights defender Mr Omar Esparza Zárarte began a hunger strike, demanding that the Mexican and Oaxacan authorities end the four years of impunity for those responsible for the of killing human rights defender Ms Bety Cariño. Omar Esparza is a leader of Movimiento Agrario Indígena Zapatista (MAIZ) – The Zapatista Indigenous Agricultural Movement, and the…

The images for this photo essay were taken in three Zapotec communities in different regions of Oaxaca, united through their ongoing work to find new, shared strategies for defending their territories. Exhibits of these photos have been one of those tools. Nearly 80% of the land in Oaxaca is communally owned, mostly by indigenous people, and the Mexican government is…

6 May, 2014 On April 27, 2010, while Jyri Jaakkola and Bety Cariño were setting up a humanitarian and human rights convoy in the vicinity of the indigenous community of San Juan Copala, they were fatally attacked by a paramilitary group known as UBISORT. Their murders generated national and international outrage. For the first time in the history of Mexico,…