| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Mexico Farm Leader Dies After Setting Self on Fire
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| | People try to douse the flames as a man sets himself on fire in front of the state governor's office in Jalapa, Mexico. (AP) | 
| | Red Cross paramedics help a man who set himself on fire in front of the state governor's office in Jalapa, Mexico. Ramiro Guillen Tapia, 65, doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire after learning that Gov. Fidel Herrera Beltran canceled a meeting to sign an accord with farmers. Guillen Tapia is the leader of a farmer's group that claims it has been stripped of its land in Veracruz state. Guillen Tapia died on Wednesday due to severe burns to more than 80 percent of his body. (AP) | | |
Jalapa, Mexico — A Mexican man who doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire as a political protest has died.
Hospital director Meliton Toledo says 65-year-old Ramiro Guillen Tapia died Wednesday of heart failure after suffering third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body.
Tapia was the leader of a farmers' group seeking government mediation in a dispute over 620 acres (250 hectares) of land in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
He set himself ablaze Tuesday in the state capital of Jalapa, outside the office of Gov. Fidel Herrera.
Tapia told reporters beforehand that Herrera had refused to meet with his group and canceled more than 100 appointments in the last four years. |
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