Tomás Cruz Lorenzo

He completed some schooling, but his professional training began at the age of 20 years old when he was a sacristan to his town's church, during the priesthood of Edmundo Avalos in Panixtlahuaca.

A few days later the crime was reported to the First Forum for Indigenous Human Rights, which took place that year in Matias Romero, Oaxaca Isidro Baldenegro López.

[7] Tomás like many other indigenous leaders Movement for Triqui Autonomy was murdered during the tenure of Salinas de Gortari and Heladio Ramirez Lopez as president and governor subsequently [1].

Cruz Lorenzo is considered an anarchist thinker, and his thought was influenced by the teachings of Ricardo Flores Magón, Kropotkin, and Pierre Clastres.

He was a co-founder of the publication Nuevo Milenio,[1] which served as a platform for documenting and drawing attention to the issues faced by the Chatino people.