Flavio Sosa

Flavio Sosa Villavicencio (born 1964 in San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca), is a Mexican activist and a member of the provisional collective council of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).

Political career Sosa, a father of three, has been a notable leader in Mexico since 2001.

During the 2000 elections, his organization Nueva Izquierda de Oaxaca ("the New Left of Oaxaca") supported Vicente Fox (now ex-President).

Sosa was an activist with the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and the Popular Unity Party in Oaxaca. While Sosa denounces the idea of leadership within the APPO, stating "ours is a movement of the grassroots, not leaders", he has become a prominent figure within the Oaxaca protests.

Recent Solidarity Actions

On Wed. January 16, 2008 Mexican prison authorities denied U.S. farm activists the right to see Flavio Sosa in prison. The eighteen U.S. farm activists from three states - Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Maine - were in Oaxaca, Mexico from January 10–17 as part of a solidarity delegation organized by Family Farm Defenders. This incident was publicly denounced by the FFD delegation at a press conference in Oaxaca City, which received coverage in Noticias, as well as upon their return to the U.S.

Sosa was released from prison on April 19, 2008 after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to continue holding him. He was not convicted of any crimes.