To the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ)
To the Sixth Civil Observation Mission
To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN)
To the National Indigenous Congress – Indigenous Governing Council (CNI-CIG)
To the peoples, organizations, collectives, and individuals who struggle for life and autonomy.
From this territory we raise our collective voice to denounce the arrest and disappearance of compañero Jesús Plácido Galindo, spokesperson for the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ) and member of the Coordination and Follow-Up Commission of the National Indigenous Congress.
We know this is not an isolated event, but part of the war that the bad governments and organized crime, acting in complicity and impunity, wage against the peoples who defend the land, the territory, and life. This alliance between them grows more evident by the day, and it is playing out across the entire territory known as Mexico. The systematic violence endured by the communities of the Montaña Baja region of Guerrero is part of this necropolitics carried out from above against those of us who live below: the killings, the disappearances, the forced displacement, and the criminalization of those who struggle are all expressions of a politics of terror carried out by this system of death, which seeks to destroy the peoples’ processes of autonomous organization.
The arrest of compa Jesús Plácido, which took place on July 17, 2026 in an operation involving military forces and security agencies, is deeply troubling. His whereabouts and the reasons for his arrest remain unknown at this time, and we hold the federal and state governments responsible for any harm to his physical and psychological integrity.
From Chiapas we know well the cost of defending life. Our peoples too have faced forced displacement, militarization, the presence of armed groups, persecution, and the criminalization of those who organize resistance. For this reason, the struggle of CIPOG-EZ is also our struggle.
We demand:
- The immediate return and freedom of compañero Jesús Plácido Galindo.
- That the authorities immediately report on his whereabouts and fully guarantee his integrity.
- An end to the persecution and criminalization of CIPOG-EZ and the organized communities of the Montaña Baja region of Guerrero.
- Real guarantees for the life, safety, and autonomy of the peoples that make up the National Indigenous Congress.
We call on organizations, collectives, communities, support networks, signatories of the Declaration for Life, adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, and all people of dignity to speak out and mobilize until our compañero is presented alive and set free.
Solidarity among peoples is our strength. Facing fear, organization. Facing war, community. Facing disappearance and violence, we will keep defending life.
Immediate presentation and freedom for Jesús Plácido Galindo!
Stop the war against the people!
Sincerely
From Chiapas
July 17, 2026
We sign:
Organizations and collectives
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas A.C.
Coordinadora de Colectivxs, Organizaciones e Individuxs por Palestina en Chiapas
Escuelas para Chiapas
Espacio de Mujeres de la Sexta Jovel
Grupo de Trabajo No Estamos Todxs
Nantik Meche. Comunicación feminista popular.
Nodo Solidario – México
Desarrollo Económico y Social de los Mexicanos Indígenas A.C.
Territorios en Movimiento
Individual signatures
Concepción Suárez Aguilar. Popular defender. Chiapas
For life, land, territory, and autonomy.
Original text published by Grupo de Trabajo No Estamos Todxs.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.