| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Officers Arrested in Deadly Mexico Raid
 Associated Press
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San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico – Five state police officers were arrested in southern Mexico yesterday in connection with a deadly raid to dislodge protesters from a Mayan archaeological site.
The five officers led an operation Friday to remove hundreds of mostly indigenous villagers who had occupied the entrance to the 1,200-year-old Chinkultic ruins for nearly a month, the Chiapas state Justice Department said.
The officers could face homicide charges. An additional 295 police who had been held for questioning were released by yesterday.
The villagers, most of them from the Mayan Tzeltal and Tzotzil cultures, were protesting what they call excessive entrance fees and a failure to reinvest gate revenues in local infrastructure and environmental protection. |
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