Arantepacua case: 8 years after the massacre in the Purépecha community

Members of the Purépecha community of Arantepacua called for the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) to attract the investigation into the massacre that took place in 2017 and for a truth commission to be opened to investigate the facts. They argued that, on the eve of eight years of the police repression, on 5 April, there had been no progress in the investigation by the State Prosecutor’s Office, and explained that it was because i…

Luis Manuel Guevara / Metapolitics Morelia, Michoacán, on April 4, 2025.- Eight years after the police raid in Arantepacua, which took place on April 5, 2017, the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, said that reparation for the damage to the victims is still ongoing and the investigations for these events remain open. In an interview, the state president recalled that this case, in which citizens of that indigenous community were att…