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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | April 2008 
2 Mexican Activists, Radio Hosts Killed
 Associated Press
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Oaxaca, Mexico - Police said that they are investigating the killings of two Indian activists who worked for a community radio station in southern Mexico.
Felicitas Martinez, 20, and Teresa Bautista, 24, were traveling in a rural part of Oaxaca state when gunmen opened fire on their car late Monday. The gunfire killed the two and wounded three others in the vehicle, including a three-year-old child, the Oaxaca attorney general's office said in a statement,
The office said the assailants used assault rifles in what it described as an ambush. No arrests have been made.
The two women hosted programs on a community radio station called "The Voice that Breaks the Silence" in the Trique Indian town of San Juan Copala, where activists one year ago declared themselves an autonomous community in a challenge to state officials.
Omar Esparza of the human rights group, Working Together Center for Community Support, said in a statement that the women "had gone out to report, to tape people. They were Indian reporters."
He said the killings occurred in the context of political tensions in the area. |
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