On January 16, 2017 the well-known environmental and human rights activist Isido Baldenegro López succumbed to injuries after being shot the day before. The scene of the crime was the municipality of Coloradas de la Virgen in the south of Sierra Tarahumara, one of the municipalities with the highest rates of violent crime in Mexico.
On February 1, 2017 Juan Ontiveros Ramos, a police officer in the municipality of Choréachi (Pino Gordo), was abducted and murdered. He had just returned from Chihuahua, where, along with the traditional authorities, he had reported on the insecurity and violence in his home community before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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