[narconews] Davies: Two Triqui Community Radio Reporters Assassinated
 
Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:29:02 -0500 (CDT)


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Dear Colleagues,

The repression continues in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca
as two Triqui women activists, aged 20 and 24, were assassinated
in their vehicle on Monday night.

Narco News' Nancy Davies comments on the latest wave of the violence
to haunt Oaxaca while the struggle against repression endures.

Davies writes:

"The Triqui indigenous community of San Juan Copala, which declared
autonomy on January 21, 2007, has suffered the bitter loss of two
young women. Felicitas Martinez, age 20, and Teresa Bautista, age
24, were traveling in a rural part of Oaxaca state on route to the
statewide meeting `For the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples of
Oaxaca,; when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle late Monday. The
gunfire killed the two women, and wounded three others in the
vehicle, a man and wife and their three-year-old child, the Oaxaca
attorney general's office said in a statement.

"The two assassinated women worked for a community radio station
called "The Voice that Breaks the Silence" in San Juan Copala, where
activists in January of 2007 declared San Juan Copala an autonomous
municipality in a challenge to state officials including the local
Triqui movement united for struggle, MULT, which had been corrupted
by the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI, in its Spanish
initials). The new Triqui municipality, through its organization
called MULTI (the Independent United Triqui Movement for Struggle),
called for union of all Triquis, and implicitly rejected the PRI
and government paramilitary, thus breaking their hegemonic control
in the region."

Davies continues to explain how the Triqui community and other
organziations are responding these murders. Read the rest of the
story online at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

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