translated from Spanish: Environmentalist Marco Antonio Arcos killed in Chilpancingo, Guerrero

Marco Antonio Arcos Fuentes, environmental defender and curator of the Jaleaca community of Catalan, Guerrero, was killed this Friday in a taqueria, in the state capital.
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The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) condemned the killing and sued the justice authorities to investigate the facts with particular attention in their possible relationship to Arcos Fuentes’ human rights advocacy activity.
The agency therefore expressed concern “for the absence of coordinated actions and strategies by the bodies of the three government orders, aimed at ensuring the life, security and personal integrity of human rights defenders, as such aggressions constitute an obstacle and inhibit the full exercise of the defence of rights”.

We condemn the killing of environmental defender Marco Antonio Arcos Fuentes in #Chilpancingo, #Guerrero, and call on the authorities to conduct an effective investigation to clarify the facts. #DefendemosAlPueblo pic.twitter.com/4ucGPTRTRw
— CNDH in Mexico (@CNDH) May 23, 2021

As curator of Jaleaca de Catalán, Marco Antonio Arcos denounced the illegal logging of pine in the Sierra de Chilpancingo.
Last February, accompanied by residents of Jaleaca, he held a protest in Chilpancingo, where they called on the government to declare a vede and financially indemnity the ejidatarios of the Chicahuales community – who do pine logging – because they know they are people in poverty.
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According to the CNDH, with this murder, 66 defenders have been killed since 2006 in Mexico.
The All Rights for All And All Network has documented the murder of 45 rights defenders in the first two years of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government.
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Original source in Spanish