2 community radio hosts shot, killed in southern Mexico
The Associated Press
Published: April 9, 2008
OAXACA, Mexico: Police said Tuesday 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 worked for 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 Sup****t, said in a statement that the women "had gone out to
re****t, to tape people. They were Indian re****ters."
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He said the killings occurred in the context of political tensions in
the area.
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