Overview
- Roughly 1,000 Nahua residents from Tula, Xicotlán and Acahuehuetlán remain displaced after armed raids burned homes and used explosive drones, leaving schools closed and villages abandoned.
- Authorities opened a safe corridor for food and medical aid in Alcozacán and pledged to restore joint Army, National Guard and state police bases, with about a thousand security personnel now in the area.
- Human rights groups report soldiers witnessed several assaults without stepping in to protect civilians, and community leaders demand investigations, arrests and guarantees for a safe return.
- Mexico’s security chief Omar García Harfuch labeled CIPOG‑EZ, Los Ardillos and Los Tlacos as organized crime responsible for the violence, a framing the indigenous organization rejects.
- In neighboring Michoacán, the CJNG attacked the Nahua area of Ostula again this week, prompting school evacuations and fresh calls for a permanent operations base to stop armed incursions tied to control of routes and natural resources.