More than 10,000 members of the Triqui Unifying Struggle Movement (MULT) marched yesterday through the main streets of the city of Oaxaca, after demonstrating on foot on Saturday in the Mixteca region and arriving in this capital in the early hours of Sunday, aboard trucks.
The indigenous people demanded justice for the 17 MULT militants killed during the administration of the Morena governor Salomón Jara Cruz, which began in December 2022.
The mobilization left on Saturday from the junction of the Yucudaa-Tlaxiaco highway and continued towards Yanhuitlán, in the Mixteca region.
The Triquis boarded more than 100 trucks there that took them to the city of Oaxaca, where they spent the night, and this Sunday they left at 7 a.m. from the Santa Rosa zonal market, in the state capital, towards the government palace.
The protesters advanced on Highway 190, climbed Cerro del Fortín to the intersection of Benito Juárez Avenue. They traveled along that road to Morelos Street and finally reached the main square, where they warned that if a meeting with authorities was not held, they would set up a permanent sit-in.
Octavio de Jesús Díaz, state coordinator of the MULT, complained that his fellow believers who were killed have not received justice, despite the promises made by various officials.
Members of the Unifying Triqui Struggle Movement, during the demonstration yesterday in the city of Oaxaca. Photo Jorge A. Pérez
He said that since the beginning of the Jara Cruz government, he spoke of justice and the pacification of the Triqui region, but two years and months after assuming office, the area lacks surveillance by the state police and the National Guard.
In this regard, he reiterated a demand previously expressed by the MULT: that if the Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Iván García Álvarez, cannot fulfill his duty to provide security to families, not only of the Triqui ethnic group but of the entire state, he should resign and allow someone who can fulfill this task to take office.
The promises, he said, have been forgotten by a government incapable of fulfilling them and of bringing security to the Mixteca, a territory in which attacks and ambushes have been constant.
He recalled that although there has not been any aggression so far in 2025, at the beginning of November the human rights defenders Adriana and Virgina Ortiz were murdered, as was the coach of the Niños Descalzos de la Montaña basketball team, Rigoberto Martínez.
He pointed out that in the case of Adriana and Virginia there are three people arrested, including an active state police officer, who according to the State Attorney General’s Office would have been the perpetrators of the attack. However, the intellectual authors of these murders have not been found, which is the most important thing.
After the conclusion of the protest, in which thousands of people participated, according to data from the State Highway Police, a meeting was held at the government palace between state administration authorities and the collective leadership of the MULT.
Octavio de Jesús pointed out that from this meeting there were significant advances, so the planned sit-in would not be set up.
Source: jornada
