Cases / Killings and repression of defenders · Mexico · 2012
Celedonio Monroy abducted in 2012 after opposing Peña Colorada mine
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Celedonio Monroy Prudencio was abducted in Ayotitlán, Jalisco, on 23 October 2012, after opposing illegal logging and the Peña Colorada iron mine run by a Ternium–ArcelorMittal consortium. He remains missing, and no prosecution was found in the sources reviewed.
What?
Celedonio Monroy Prudencio was abducted in Ayotitlán, Jalisco; he had opposed illegal logging and the Peña Colorada iron mine. La Jornada
Where?
Ayotitlán, Jalisco, Mexico (Peña Colorada iron mine area)
When?
Abducted 23 October 2012; still missing as reported in October 2023. Mongabay (Spanish edition)
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
None on recordHarmed
- Celedonio Monroy Prudencio — abducted 23 October 2012; still missing Mongabay (Spanish edition)
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Abduction; the sources reviewed do not identify who was responsible and record no prosecution. Mongabay (Spanish edition)
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
Mongabay reported in October 2023 that Celedonio Monroy Prudencio remained missing, with no prosecution found.
La Jornada (January 2013) is cited alongside it for the same outcome.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the mine was halted after the abduction and restarted in July 2023 (no source link recorded).
- None on record An NGO letter to Ternium dated January 2025 is referenced; its content is not recorded in the sources reviewed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Voices on record: — Company or project— Government and regulators— Courts✓ Press and investigations— Communities and civil society— Researchers
Press and investigations
- La Jornada article, 21 January 2013 (estados section)La Jornada · 2013-01-21
- Missing defenders in the Sierra de Manantlán: mining and drug traffickingMongabay (Spanish edition) · 2023-10
Connected cases
Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
- Lagunes and Díaz disappearance near Ternium Las Encinas mine (Mexico) Mexico · 2023
- Ternium (Company) — here: member of the consortium operating the Peña Colorada mine; there: Operator of the Las Encinas iron-ore mine