
Román Alejandro Ochoa Rosado is a human rights defender. Since 2012 he has worked with the organisation El Caracol, which defends land and territory rights and the rights of the people of the Mayan communities in the centre and north of the state of Campeche. Román accompanies the Ejido authorities of the Union of Ejidos in Defence of Mayan Territory (Unión de Ejidos en Defensa del Territorio Maya) in processes of agrarian, criminal and public complaints, which is why he has faced risks since February 2021.