(AI translated) Higinio Bustos Navarro is a Nahuatl indigenous person, defender of the human right to self-determination of indigenous peoples, to territory and to a dignified life; he is a recognized leader and member of the National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS), a grassroots organization that fights for the human right to a dignified life, against enforced disappearance, extrajudicial execution and for the freedom of political prisoners in Mexico.

He was born on January 11, 1963 and is currently 62 years old, resides in the community of Tepetzintla, Municipality of Huautla, State of Hidalgo, and processed his Credential from the National Electoral Institute in 2019, the year in which, according to the Mexican State, he was a fugitive; it is worth mentioning that Higinio Bustos had no idea that he was named in a judicial Preliminary Investigation in Mexico regarding a homicide that occurred in 2008. Arbitrary detention

May 3, 2021

He was arbitrarily detained on May 3, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. at the intersection of the Huautla-Terrerillos highway with the San Sebastián Chicontepec highway, Municipality of Chicontepec, State of Veracruz, by Agents of the General Prosecutor's Office of the State of Veracruz; at the time of the arrest they did not show him any arrest warrant and did not tell him the reason why he was being detained. They detail that "around twelve agents, dressed in civilian clothes and with firearms, forced him to get out of the vehicle in which he was traveling, handcuffed him and took him into a white pickup truck." They only informed him that he would be transferred to the Prosecutor's Office of Tantoyuca, Veracruz; however, they took him to the Social Reinsertion Center of Tantoyuca.

The Cerezo Mexico Committee, a human rights organization, issued Urgent Action AU-02/Ver/FNLS-03/05/2021 denouncing the arbitrary detention and expressing its concern for the physical and psychological integrity of Higinio Bustos Navarro.