Alejandro Solalinde

Alejandro Solalinde Guerra (born March 19, 1945)[1] is a Mexican Catholic priest and human rights champion.

He is the coordinator of the South Pacific Human Mobility Ministry of the Mexican Bishopric and director of Hermanos en el Camino, a shelter that provides Central American migrants with humanitarian aid and education.

[1] Solalinde has received bachelor's degrees in history and psychology from the Autonomous University of Mexico State, as well as a Master's in Systemic Family Therapy.

[6] After two months of exile, he returned to Oaxaca where he recommended that the PRI politicians undertake an act of contrition for the errors made and the abuses committed during their 71-year rule of the country, and asked president Enrique Peña Nieto to take the path of democracy.

[7] In 2019, he was awarded the Geuzenpenning for his project Hermanos en el Camino in Ciudad Ixtepec, a shelter for migrants trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States.