{"id":672,"date":"2023-11-30T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenlatinos.swooncreative.ca\/greenlatinos-remembers-and-honors-the-life-of-maestre-jesus-ociel-baena-saucedo\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:02:37","slug":"greenlatinos-remembers-and-honors-the-life-of-maestre-jesus-ociel-baena-saucedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/greenlatinos-remembers-and-honors-the-life-of-maestre-jesus-ociel-baena-saucedo\/","title":{"rendered":"GreenLatinos recuerda y honra la vida del Maestre Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Seguido en Espa\u00f1ol**<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo was the first openly nonbinary person to serve as a judge in M\u00e9xico, where they served as a maestre<\/em> (the legally recognized nonbinary word for magistrate <\/em>en espa\u00f1ol)<\/em> in the Aguascalientes state electoral court since October 1, 2022. They made Latin American history by being the first openly non-binary maestre across latino\u00e1merica\u2013and they were out and proud. Their social media accounts illuminate the love and power for LGBTQ+ communities, and their advocacy for the rights and visibility<\/u><\/a> of LGBTQ+ communities entre M\u00e9xico cannot be understated.<\/p>\n

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Baena Saucedo was the first person to obtain a nonbinary birth certificate in Coahuila, M\u00e9xico, receive a nonbinary gender Mexican passport<\/u><\/a>, and have the gender-neutral term for magistrate designated to their post as judge. Their advocacy and determination created a path for others to have the same recognition and rights by having the option to select the gender-neutral marker X<\/em> on identification documents in addition to H<\/em> and M<\/em> for male and female.<\/p>\n

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Baena stressed that the LGBTIQ+ community should be allowed to be safe and have power at critical decision-making tables. Throughout their career, they advanced active civic engagement<\/u><\/a> from the LGTBIQ+ community in the politics of M\u00e9xico. Baena Saucedo advocated for access to inclusive bathrooms and issued guidance for including LGTBIQ+ people in the courtroom. In an October 2022 interview on CNN, they said, \"In the upper echelons of power, which are generally men [...] Visibility allows us to normalize our presence; We want nothing more than to normalize our presence in public and private spaces.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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M\u00e9xico is the country with the second most hate crimes in Latin America, where 305 acts of violence against LGBTIQ+ people have been documented between 2019 and 2022, according to the National Observatory of Hate Crimes Against LGBTI+ Persons in Mexico. After more than a year of threats to Baena Saucedo\u2019s life (happening with more frequency as their prominence grew as a leading LGBTQI+ advocate), they and their partner Dorian Herrera were found dead in their home on November 13, 2023. The Associated Press<\/u><\/a> recently reported controversy and corruption surrounding the facts about the death. The LGBTQ+ rights group, Letra S,<\/em> in a press statement<\/u><\/a> calls on the Aguascalientes Prosecutor\u2019s office to pursue a thorough investigation of the incident to determine if the tragic deaths of Baena Saucedo and Herrera were a hate crime.<\/p>\n

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Baena Saucedo\u2019s death is one of too many recent acts of violence against LGBTQIA+ Latin American activists and leaders. We remember the murder of Manuel (Manny) \u201cTortuguita\u201d Esteban Paez Ter\u00e1n, a queer, non-binary, and Indigenous Venezuelan of Timoto-Cuica descent who was killed by Georgia state police while defending the Weelaunee forest from desecration in Atlanta. Across Latin America, Indigenous, queer, femme, and women land and water protectors are disproportionately killed, murdered, and incarcerated for their activism, regardless of the strategies they engage in.<\/p>\n

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GreenLatinos joins our communities in remembering Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo\u2019s bravery and honoring their lucha for LGBTQI+ communities worldwide. Baena Saucedo\u2019s courage to live authentically and pridefully as a leader will continue to inspire our fight for environmental liberation. The fight for liberaci\u00f3n ambiental<\/em> is a fight for justice.<\/p>\n

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**Espa\u00f1ol<\/strong>**<\/p>\n

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Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo fue la primera persona abiertamente no binaria en servir como juez en M\u00e9xico, donde se desempe\u00f1\u00f3 como maestre (la palabra no binaria legalmente reconocida para magistrado en espa\u00f1ol) en el tribunal electoral del estado de Aguascalientes desde el 1 de octubre de 2022. Hicieron lat\u00edn historia de Estados Unidos por ser el primer maestre abiertamente no binario en Am\u00e9rica Latina, y estaban orgullosos. Sus cuentas de redes sociales iluminan el amor y el poder de las comunidades LGBTQ+, y su defensa de los derechos y la visibilidad<\/strong><\/u><\/a> <\/strong>de las comunidades LGBTQ+ en M\u00e9xico no puede subestimarse.<\/p>\n

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Baena Saucedo fue la primera persona en obtener un certificado de nacimiento no binario<\/strong><\/u><\/a> en Coahuila, M\u00e9xico, recibir un pasaporte mexicano de g\u00e9nero no binario y tener el t\u00e9rmino de g\u00e9nero neutral para magistrado designado para su cargo de juez. Su defensa y determinaci\u00f3n crearon un camino para que otros tuvieran el mismo reconocimiento y derechos al tener la opci\u00f3n de seleccionar el marcador X de g\u00e9nero neutral en los documentos de identificaci\u00f3n, adem\u00e1s de H y M para hombres y mujeres.<\/p>\n

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Baena destac\u00f3 que se debe permitir que la comunidad LGBTIQ+ est\u00e9 segura y tenga poder en las mesas cr\u00edticas de toma de decisiones. A lo largo de su carrera, impulsaron el compromiso c\u00edvico activo de la comunidad LGTBIQ+ en la pol\u00edtica de M\u00e9xico.<\/strong><\/u><\/a> Baena Saucedo abog\u00f3 por el acceso a ba\u00f1os inclusivos y emiti\u00f3 orientaciones para incluir a personas LGTBIQ+ en los tribunales. En una entrevista de octubre de 2022 en CNN, dijeron: \"En las altas esferas del poder, que generalmente son hombres [...] La visibilidad nos permite normalizar nuestra presencia; no queremos nada m\u00e1s que normalizar nuestra presencia en espacios p\u00fablicos y privados.\u201d<\/p>\n

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M\u00e9xico es el segundo pa\u00eds con m\u00e1s cr\u00edmenes de odio en Am\u00e9rica Latina, donde se han documentado 305 actos de violencia contra personas LGBTIQ+ entre 2019 y 2022, seg\u00fan el Observatorio Nacional de Cr\u00edmenes de Odio Contra Personas LGBTI+ en M\u00e9xico. Despu\u00e9s de m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o de amenazas a la vida de Baena Saucedo (que ocurrieron con m\u00e1s frecuencia a medida que crec\u00eda su prominencia como destacado defensor LGBTQI+), ellos y su pareja Dorian Herrera fueron encontrados muertos en su casa el 13 de noviembre de 2023. El Associated Press<\/strong><\/u><\/a> inform\u00f3 recientemente controversia y corrupci\u00f3n en torno a los hechos sobre la muerte. El grupo de derechos LGBTQ+, Letra S, en un comunicado de prensa<\/strong><\/u><\/a> llama a la Fiscal\u00eda de Aguascalientes a realizar una investigaci\u00f3n exhaustiva del incidente para determinar si las tr\u00e1gicas muertes de Baena Saucedo y Herrera fueron un crimen de odio.<\/p>\n

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La muerte de Baena Saucedo es uno de los muchos actos recientes de violencia contra activistas y l\u00edderes latinoamericanos LGBTQIA+. Recordamos el asesinato de Manuel (Manny) \u201cTortuguita\u201d Esteban Paez Ter\u00e1n, un venezolano queer, no binario e ind\u00edgena de ascendencia Timoto-Cuica que fue asesinado por la polic\u00eda estatal de Georgia mientras defend\u00eda el bosque Weelaunee de la profanaci\u00f3n en Atlanta. En toda Am\u00e9rica Latina, las mujeres ind\u00edgenas, queer, femme y protectoras de la tierra y el agua son asesinadas, asesinadas y encarceladas de manera desproporcionada por su activismo, independientemente de las estrategias que emprendan.<\/p>\n

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GreenLatinos se une a nuestras comunidades para recordar la valent\u00eda de Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo y honrar su lucha por las comunidades LGBTQI+ en todo el mundo. La valent\u00eda de Baena Saucedo de vivir aut\u00e9ntica y orgullosamente como l\u00edder seguir\u00e1 inspirando nuestra lucha por la liberaci\u00f3n ambiental. La lucha por la liberaci\u00f3n ambiental es una lucha por la justicia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**Seguido en Espa\u00f1ol** Jes\u00fas Ociel Baena Saucedo was the first openly nonbinary person to serve as a judge in M\u00e9xico, where they served as a maestre (the legally recognized nonbinary word for magistrate en espa\u00f1ol) in the Aguascalientes state electoral court since October 1, 2022. They made Latin American history by being the first openly non-binary maestre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"federal_programs":[],"state_region":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"federal_programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/federal_programs?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"state_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_region?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}