Dos mujeres de la radio la voz que rompe el silencio han sido asesinadas: Community Radio Producers Murdered in Oaxaca

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Commu­nity Radio Produ­cers Murde­red in Mexico

April 7th, 2008. Oaxaca, Mexico.

Two indi­ge­nous triqui women who worked at the commu­nity radio station
La
Voz que Rompe el Silen­cio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence), in the
auto­no­mous muni­ci­pa­lity of San Juan Copala (Mixteca region), were shot
and murde­red while on their way to Oaxaca city to parti­ci­pate in the
State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples of Oaxaca.
Three other people were inju­red.

Accor­ding to the State Attor­ney Gene­ral, the victims are Teresa
Bautista
Merino (24 years old) and Felí­ci­tas Martí­nez Sánchez (20 years old).
Fran­cisco Vásquez Martí­nez (30 years old), his wife Cris­tina
Martí­nez
Flores (22 years old), and their son Jaciel Vásquez Martí­nez (three
years old) were also inju­red in the attack.

Accor­ding to preli­mary reports, the women had left the station, which
is
part of the Network of Indi­ge­nous Commu­nity Radio Stati­ons of the
Sout­he­ast (Red de Radios Comu­ni­ta­rias Indí­ge­nas del Sureste), around
1:00 PM. They were trave­lling in a truck on their way to Oaxaca city,
but were ambus­hed on the outs­kirts of the commu­nity Llano Juarez.

The two commu­nity radio acti­vists were suppo­sed to coor­di­nate the
working group for Commu­nity and Alter­na­tive Commu­ni­ca­tion: Commu­nity
Radio, Video, Press, and Inter­net, at the State Forum for the Defense
of
the Rights of the People of Oaxaca, which was to begin the today
(Wednes­day) in the audi­to­rium of Seccion 22 of the teachers union in
Oaxaca. The Center for Commu­nity Support Working Toget­her (CACTUS as
the
spanish acronym) rele­a­sed a commu­ni­que denoun­cing the murders and
deman­ding that the state autho­ri­ties inves­ti­gate and punish those
respon­si­ble for the crime.

The state attor­ney gene­ral said that 20 bullet shells, cali­ber 7.62,
were found at the site of the murders, along with other arms inclu­ding
an AK-47. People are encou­ra­ged to contact their local embas­sies and
consu­la­tes (or to orga­nize demons­tra­ti­ons at their local embas­sies and
consu­la­tes) to express their condem­na­tion of this para­mi­li­tary
repres­sion of indi­ge­nous women and commu­nity media projects.