Environmentalist Killed Shot in Oaxaca · Global Voices

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Cristino Castro Perea, environmental defender of Barra de la Cruz, in Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, was shot dead, report Cedhapi.

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On Friday, February 28, 2025, Cristino Castro Perea, a well-known environmentalist defender and community leader of 63 years, was killed in the town of Barra de la Cruz, in the municipality of Santiago Astata, Oaxaca. Castro, who was in the central kiosk of the community, was hit by several shots fired by two individuals travelling on a motorcycle. After the attack, the aggressors fled the place without being captured. Castro Perea had been a st…

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Visits: 24 On the afternoon of Friday, February 28, activist Cristino Castro Perea was killed in the community of Barra de la Cruz, in the municipality of Santiago Astata, Oaxaca. According to the Center for Human Rights and Advisory to Indigenous Peoples (Cedhapi), the activist was gunned down by at least two subjects travelling on a motorcycle who fled after the attack. The 63-year-old member of the environmentalist group of indigenous defende…

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Cristino Castro Perea, a well-known environmentalist defender in Oaxaca, was killed on Friday afternoon, February 28 in the community of Barra de la Cruz, municipality of Santiago Astata, Tehuantepec.According to local media, the 63-year-old activist was attacked at around six o'clock in the afternoon when he was at the community kiosk.While witnesses indicated that two men aboard a motorcycle arrived at the site and shot several times before fl…

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OAXACA, OAX.- Centro de Derechos Humanos y Asesorías a Pueblos Indígenas CEDHAPI A.C reported that Cristiano Perea, a community defender in the municipality of Santiago Astata and a member of the collective of environmental defenders in Barra de la Cruz, was murdered by two people on board a motorcycle and was shot several times when he was in the center of the community of Barra de la Cruz.

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* Unfair competition for pirate cranes and invasion of sections granted by cranes from Puebla, Veracruz and the State of Mexico * The incursion of criminal groups into the Oaxacan Permissionary sector of the Crane service agreed to point out that challenges of the sector such as regulation of the service and clarity in the allocation of permits, unfair competition resulting from the operation of irregular cranes, lack of effective supervision an…