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Tarahumara Case

Margie - 5-30-2004 at 01:37 PM

From The San Diego Union, May 30,2004.

Tarahumara Case: Four state police have been charged with abuse of authority when they arrested two Tarahumara Indian environmentalists last year, lending credence to the Indian's claims they were hit with trumped-up weapons and drug charges to discourage their activism. A months long investigation by Chihuahua state's internal affairs office showed the environmentalists and other Tarahumara Indians were victims of police abuses, including improper arrest and robbery, prosecuters said Friday. Lawyers for Baldenegro and Hermenegildo Rivas said the imprisoned ecologists should be released.

What does this have to do with Baja?

The Gull - 5-30-2004 at 01:47 PM


Margie - 5-30-2004 at 04:59 PM

This is follow up on a story from a site which I posted as a good information source for the Borderlands:

http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/

Things which happen in other parts of Mexico can affect Baja California on economic, political, environmental, and socilogical levels.

Duh..........

socilogical?

The Gull - 5-30-2004 at 08:41 PM

kan't spel, duh?

Why don't you post something relevant like the price of tea in India? Doesn't that also impact Baja?

Rationalization, the ultimate refuge of the liberal.

Margie - 5-30-2004 at 09:20 PM

One perspective might be, Gull, that the present administration of PAN promised wide sweeping reform as far as human rights are concerned.

This incident seems to indicate that that promise was not kept, and they are trying to mitigate it.

It seems that PAN is trying to really pull it together here, and present themselves as the good guys, especially now that the PRD and PRI seem to be closing ranks as far as environmental and human rights policy is concerned.

PAN is doing some damage control but it might , unfortunately, be too late.


baja rooster - 5-31-2004 at 09:51 PM

Wow! One incidence-- what a revelation.:P

Margie - 6-1-2004 at 12:40 AM

In light of the fact that Fox blasted Castro for his Human Rights abuse just recently, yes, this is relevant.

Here are some more:

Digna Ochoa

Jacobo Silva

Gloria Arenas Agis

Fernando Gatica

Felicitas Padilla

Rodolfo Montiel

Teodoro Cabrera

Miquel Sarre

Sergio Aquayo

Edgar Cortez

Juan Antonio Vega

Fernando Ruiz

Abel Barrera

Tremendous increase in operations until just recently by paramilitary groups harrassing indegenous populations, even to the point of assasination and forced displacement of entire families.