In this context, indigenous communities live in a situation that deepens the conditions of inequality, poverty, violence and impunity. It particularly affects those who defend their collective rights to territories and self-determination against industrial megaprojects. These are made worse with the continued disregard of the authorities to guarantee, respect and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The responsibility of the municipal and state governments acting in complicity with the aggressors in the communities has been documented, thereby creating favourable conditions for impunity to prevail.

The communities point to a dynamic of ongoing pretence on the part of the Mexican State. Additionally, there are structural dynamics that perpetuate conditions of inequality and deny the enjoyment of rights for individuals and communities

“Indigenous peoples across the globe are increasingly subjected to criminalization and violations of their individual and collective rights with impunity. Help put an end to this.”