(Translation by BHRC)

...With regard to the articles entitled ‘Frayba calls for urgent protection for a human rights defender on the Chiapas coast’ and ‘Espacio OSC shares an urgent call for support to strengthen protection mechanisms for lawyer Poulette Celene Hernandez’; firstly, this organisation regrets the events referred to in these articles; however, we have no information to suggest that any staff members of this organisation were involved in or had any connection with such acts, nor do we have any record of any dispossession, as referred to in both online articles, and we certainly have no links to any criminal group; therefore, there is no evidence to suggest that any staff members of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec were involved in any way...

It is important to reiterate that the Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor, as part of the Federal Government of Mexico, is a guarantor of human rights; consequently, as public servants, its members have an obligation to promote, respect, protect and guarantee human rights, whilst observing the principles of universality, interdependence, indivisibility and progressivity; therefore, we are prohibited from committing any act of harassment, violence, intimidation or threats, or any other act that infringes upon the rights of a human being; Therefore, as there is no evidence or grounds for concluding that staff belonging to the Tehuantepec Isthmus Interoceanic Corridor were involved in the acts of harassment mentioned in the publications, I request that the publication be made in those terms...