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[^1]\n\nRaymundo Alfonso Flores Ita, an LGBTIQ+ activist and person living with HIV in Oaxaca, publicly denounced Elizabeth Lara Rodríguez, the head of the Oaxaca Human Rights Ombudsperson's Office (DDHPO), for alleged negligence regarding his safety. [^2]\n\nIn the complaint, Oaxaca's State Government Secretariat (Sego) requested prosecutor Bernardo Rodríguez, in a document dated August 20, to report whether journalist Ernesto Rojas had filed a criminal complaint against Governor Salomón Jara and Sego head Jesús Romero, and whether Rojas had requested protective measures. [^3]\n\nJesús Romero, head of Oaxaca's Sego, denied having given any instruction to fabricate crimes, detain, or persecute journalist Ernesto Rojas, and said the request to the prosecutor had an institutional and protective purpose: to determine whether complaints and protective measures existed so as to help safeguard Rojas's life and integrity. [^4]\n\nJournalist Ernesto Rojas claimed he has information that Jesús Romero, head of Oaxaca's Sego, instructed officials under his command six months earlier to fabricate crimes against him to enable his detention, and that after that failed, Romero now seeks a different approach through the request to the prosecutor's office. [^5]\n\nFlores Ita alleged that his life and physical integrity are in danger after receiving death threats, and he criticized the DDHPO for a lack of attention and negligence. [^6]\n\nFlores Ita demanded immediate access to truth, justice, integral reparation, guarantees against repetition, and an immediate cessation of discriminatory acts. [^7]\n\nFlores Ita reported that from July 29 to August 5, 2026, it took seven days for officials to acknowledge his petition, but they refused to grant protective measures until he was physically assaulted or nearly died. 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