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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2005 
Mexican Village Mob Lynches Neighbor
 Reuters
| | A year ago, two police officers were beaten and burned to death and a third was gravely injured in a town outside Mexico City after a mob was whipped into a frenzy by false rumors the police were trying to abduct local schoolchildren. |
Mexico City - Some 200 people dragged a neighbor from his house in a Tzotzil Indian village in southern Mexico and beat him to death in revenge for the death in a brawl of another man, the daily El Universal said on Tuesday.
Vicente Mendez got into a drunken fight on Sunday with Luis de Jesus Gallegos, who fell during the fracas, hit his head on a rock and died in Pantelho, near the city of San Cristobal de las Casas in the southern state of Chiapas, the paper said.
Mendez went home and hid, but a local leader called on fellow villagers to detain him, and a mob of about 200 pulled him from his house to take him to community leaders.
Police could not stop the mob and Mendez was beaten to death and his body dumped behind a community meeting house until Monday. Seven people were arrested, including the community leader, officials told the newspaper.
Mob vengeance is not uncommon in Mexico and neighboring Guatemala, especially in the indigenous countryside where lack of faith in often corrupt police and courts can combine with indigenous notions of justice and boil over in rage.
A year ago, two police officers were beaten and burned to death and a third was gravely injured in a town outside Mexico City after a mob was whipped into a frenzy by false rumors the police were trying to abduct local schoolchildren. |
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