A coalition of civil society organizations and activists on June 10, 2025, condemned a wave of land grabbing in indigenous communities along Oaxaca’s coast and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. At the Forum for the Defense of Territory and Agrarian Rights, participants described an “aggressive advance” of beach privatization and real estate developments, backed by what they called the Cartel of Land Grabbing—a network of business, political and criminal interests operating with official complicity.