by NANCY DAVIES
Indigenous social leader Catarino Torres Pereda was murdered on October 23, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Within twenty-four hours of each other on October 23, 2010 two more social leaders, one the Chinanteco indigenous leader Catarino Torres, and the other the “moral” leader of MULT, (Unified Triqui Struggle) Heriberto Pazos, were assassinated.
Each time some well-known social-political activist is slain, voices shout for justice, but there is no justice. Impunity in Oaxaca remains at virtually 100%. The question of who did it apparently will never be answered. One can guess, on the basis of the social justice issues the victim espoused, the victim was slain by the government. Conversely, if the victim was affiliated with the long-ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), infamous for its murders, was he killed by a social activist? By organized crime? By guerrilla vengeance? Or on orders of the PRI governor himself?
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