On Sunday, he was buried in a cemetery in his native village of Kakamippek. “Marco taught us how to protect human rights with a machete in his hands,” said Abel Barrera, the head of the Center for Human Rights Tlakhinollan. At the same time, he indicated that Suastogui also cooperated closely with the authorities and the UN to achieve his goals.
On a passionate Friday, a man shot at Suastogui in a neighboring acapucco when he left the beach of a festive city, where he worked as a representative of workers in the tourism industry. Doctors fought for his survival for a week. Together with his family, Suastugui conducted a campaign against local rulers for the rights of the poor population, and for 22 years he fought with the organization of Cecop against the construction of the dam of Laparot. Thanks to the blocking, public relations and legal measures, they were able to prevent the project today.
If the state energy body CFE is building an object once, several communities and 17,000 hectares of arable land lying on Rio Papagayo will be flooded. 25,000 people would have to leave their villages, plantations and fields with lemons, melons, coconuts and mangoes destroyed. And residents criticize this so that vacationers are equipped with electricity and water. They themselves remained empty.
Suastogui was innocent in prison three times from his commitment. Since all charges were built, as the lawyer of Vidulfo Rosalez emphasizes, he was always released.
His brother never appeared again
In August 2021, unknown people dragged his brother Vicente, who was also one of the leaders of Cecop. Since then, Marco also devoted himself to the search for Vicente, who never appeared. Suastogui knew very well that he was in danger. In 2024 alone, 25 environmental and human rights activists were killed in Mexico.
In your search, a total of 127,000, relatives have disappeared again and again killing again. More recently, Maria del Carmen Morales met at the end of April. She was looking for her abducted son and she had to die after her group made the center of torture of the criminal jaliscus of the public.
Suastogui was in the state protection program, because recently he received several threats to death several times. In the city, covered in violence, 5,000 security forces were mobilized to protect tourists, said the wife of S andestogui Maria de Hesus Perez, but there was no more shape on the beach.
Like almost the entire state of Herrero, Acapulco is checked by mafia groups. Politicians, local security forces and entrepreneurs are usually integrated into the criminal structure. According to him, the commitment of Suastogui attacked the “economic interests of entrepreneurs, groups of power.” And with this also organized crime.