July 17, 2023

Yaqui Released from Prison after 7 years: Fighting the Gas Pipeline in Sonora



Indigenous Yaqui leader Fidencio Aldama is free after 7 years in prison and 
has been found not guilty of homicide! He vows to continue to oppose the gas pipeline from the company IEnova, a subsidiary of the transnational U.S. company Sempra Energy. -- Voices in Movement

INDIGENOUS YAQUI LAND DEFENDER

Fidencio Aldama Perez is an Indigenous Yaqui land defender and political prisoner from the northern Mexican state of Sonora. He was arrested on October 27, 2016, and later sentenced to fifteen years and six months in prison on trumped-up charges related to a death in the community of Loma de Bácum, Sonora.

La Jornada San Luis reports

Cristina Gómez Lima, correspondent