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Abel Barrera Hernández
Abel Barrera Hernández is a Mexican anthropologist and human rights activist. In 1994, he founded the Center for Human Rights of the Mountain of Tlachinollan in Guerrero, for which he was awarded by Amnesty International and given the 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. Life and career Barrera was born in Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero. He later spent twelve years studying theology and anthropology. In 1994, he returned to his home city of Tlapa de Comonfort to found the Center for Human Rights of the Mountain of Tlachinollan. At the time, indigenous and grassroots groups were on the rise in the area, and Tlachinollan worked to improve their access to education, health care, and legal representation. Beginning in 2004, the center became active in reporting abuses by the Mexican army following the increasing militarization of the Mexican Drug War, country's war on narco-traffickers. The staff reported on rapes, forced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, seizure of lands, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tlapa De Comonfort
Tlapa de Comonfort, often shortened to Tlapa and known as Tinda'i in Mixtec, is a city in the mountain region of the Mexican state of Guerrero. It also serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. "Tlapa" is a Nahuatl exonym from ''tlappan'' or ''tluhpan'', meaning "place of washing". The "de Comonfort" part of the name is in homage to President Ignacio Comonfort. History The Codex Azoyú indicates that the city now known as Tlapa was founded between 1724 and 1756 (It's impossible the Azoyu codex was written during the 16th century). References to it also exist in codices and wood carvings from the town of Chiepetlán, claiming it was founded in 1607, and in the Humboldt Codex. The municipality was founded in 1912, with the excision of Guerrero from the states of Puebla and México. It received city status in 1920. Modern day The 2005 INEGI Census reported a population of 37,975 in the municipal seat. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |