Vicente Juarez
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, October 9, 2025, p. 20
San Luis Potosí, SLP., Activist Miguel Ángel Guzmán Michel called on the people of Mexico to the information forums that he will organize in November to publicize the initiative A new country without criminalizing the people.
The defender of the rights of the Pame and Tének peoples remained imprisoned for three months in the Villa Aldama prison, Veracruz, after being accused of terrorism. He was exonerated on September 21, after the second district court of Veracruz issued a release order in his favor.
Guzmán Michel, together with the Francisco Villa Popular Front organizations, the National Liberation Movement-New Country and others, presents this initiative to stop the persecution and criminalization of the social struggle.
In the document that they will deliver to the Legislative Branch, they request “that the human rights of people deprived of their liberty be respected, as well as that the public defender’s office disappear, so that they do not continue to profit from the people who are imprisoned in Mexico.”
At a press conference in the capital of the entity, the professor at the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí Valles campus announced that when he was imprisoned he suffered a series of legal irregularities and violations of his rights in the high-security prison of Veracruz, accused of “fabricated crimes” by the state authorities for trying to prevent the mining and cement companies that want to settle in the Huasteca of Potosí from abusing the towns. indigenous.
