Vigil For Human Rights And Global Freedom After Killings in Mexico

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Thursday April 29, 2010 15:54 by LASC - Latin America Solidarity Centre events at lasc dot ie 5 Merrion Row 01 6760435

Vigil for those killed in Mexico

Vigil in front of the Mexican Embassy*

Wednesday 5 may at 6pm

* 19 Raglan Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Last Tuesday 27th of April a Solidarity caravan in Oaxaca has been attacked by paramilitaries

Bety Cariño - who was one of Latin America Week's speakers in 2009 - has been murdered along with Finnish observer Tyri Antero Jaakkola. More activists are disappeared and injured . They were all part of a peace caravan bringing solidarity, food and clothes to the besieged Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala when they were ambushed.

Survivors and local people - as well as Omar Esparza Zárate, Bety's partner and father of her children - blame members of the PRI backed paramilitary group UBISORT for the attack. UBISORT is at the service of the government of Ulises Ruiz Ortizto, Oaxaca Governor. PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) wielded power in the country for more than 70 years until the year 2000 and it currently governs in 19 states (including Oaxaca).

Omar Zárarte he has pointed out that the state police has not gone in to help the injured and the survivors. There are also reports that an ambulance that was not allowed to reach the victims of the attack.

WE MUST NOT ALLOW THE PERPETRATORS TO ESCAPE JUSTICE !

NOTE: if you don't know how to get to the Mexican Embassy you could come at LASC ( 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2)