Tomas Rojo, spokesman, of the Traditional Authority of Vicam Yaqui, was brutally assassinated. International Water Forum on Yoeme (Yaqui) ancestral land in Sonora, Mexico, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News.
Mexico's Military used Israel's Pegasus Spyware to Spy on Yaqui in Sonora, During the Years when Yaqui Water Defenders were Imprisoned, Disappeared and Assassinated
Update: December 2024: Democracy Now reports on Pegasus spying on cell phones
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/4/surveilled_documentary
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, January 28, 2024
Mexico's military used Israel's Pegasus spyware to spy on Yaqui in Sonora, south of the Arizona border, according to leaked files. The Mexican military spied on Vicam Yaqui, during the years when many Vicam Yaqui were kidnapped and falsely imprisoned; disappeared; and brutally assassinated.
Before they were imprisoned and murdered, the Traditional Authority of Vicam Yaqui hosted International Water Forums, and highway blockades for years, to protect their Yaqui River water from being stolen by an aqueduct for the City of Hermosillo.
Tomas Rojo, spokesman for the Traditional Authority of Vicam Pueblo, was brutally assassinated on a morning walk in his community in May, 2021.
During our interview with Tomas in Vicam Pueblo, Tomas spoke of the struggle to recover what has been taken -- the land and the water -- over the past 500 years.
