Mexico: Murder of Indigenous Reporters Fuels Hatred, Division From: upsidedownworld.org
Tagged: activist, indigenous, Mexico, Oaxaca, radio, reporterPosted on: June 12th, 2008
No one has been brought to justice for the murders of two young indigenous reporters in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in April, a case that has mobilised social activists and drawn condemnation from UNESCO.
Local indigenous authorities told IPS that two months after the murders, their communities have returned to “normality,” which for them means the presence of paramilitary groups, clashes between rival clans, and the absence of state security forces.
On Apr. 7, 22-year-old Felicitas Martínez and 24-year-old Teresa Bautista were ambushed and shot to death on a rural road in their municipality. The two young women were reporters for Radio Copala, “The Voice that Breaks the Silence”, a low power, small range community radio station that has been on the air since January.”*
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