Country: Mexico

Group: Triqui

Date Finalized: 3/24/2020

Team: Vianney Mancilla & Johanna McCombs (leads), Leilani Alva, Giselle Chavez Lopez

Content Warning: sexual assault, homicide

Approximate Time Period: 1948-present

From 1826 to 1948, the Triqui lived under an official ‘free municipality’ status (InterContentinental Cry, n.d.). This ended in 1948 when the PRI (in Spanish initials) or the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico seized their land (InterContentinental Cry, n.d.). Recently, the Triqui have been making efforts to regain their autonomy (Gellman, 2016). According to Gellman, over 1,000 Triqui people have been assassinated in the twentieth century (2016). Since the Triqui declared their autonomy, approximately twenty-nine people have been killed, mostly in the 2009 government siege (Gellman, 2016). In 2008, two publicly recognized Trique radio broadcasters were killed (Gellman, 2016). In 2010, over 300 Triqui people were displaced due to paramilitary violence in the form of sexual assault, assassinations, and lack of food, water, and medical services (Gellman, 2016).  In that same year, two female activists were attacked and raped by members of the Union for the Social Well-being of the Triqui Region (UBISORT). The group was formed in 1994 in an attempt to keep indigenous groups from uprising and spreading to nearby cities and has been named by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees as a paramilitary group (Oaxaca Caravan Attack, n.d.). This group is mentioned in several other events that lead to an unknown number of shootings, rape, and murder of Triqui women and girls. The data quality would be considered a 2, due to the preponderance of evidence from websites.

Sources

  1. Kristin Bricker (2010). Oaxaca Caravan Attack: The Paramilitarization of Mexico. NACLA. Retrieved February 29, 2020, from https://nacla.org/news/oaxaca-caravan-attack-paramilitarization-mexico
  2. Gellman, M. (2016). Democratization and memories of violence. Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador. Taylor & Francis.
  3. Intercontinental Cry (2010). Unending Violence for the Indigenous People of San Juan Pueblo. retrieved from https://intercontinentalcry.org/unending-violence-for-the-indigenous-people-of-san-juan-copala/
  4. InterContinental Cry (n.d.). Trique News. Retrieved from https://intercontinentalcry.org/indigenous-peoples/triqui/