On 28 November, Juventina Villa Mojica, leader of the Organization of Ecologist Campesinos of the Sierra de Petatlán and Coyuca de Catalán, was murdered together with her son during an ambush in the Sierra Madre del Sur. The activists were attacked despite the fact that they had been protected by at least 25 agents from the State Preventive Police who had been assigned to ensuring their security since May 2012. Since 1999, leaders and other members of the is organization have been subjected to murders, disappearances, prison, and exile.
Social organizations that comprise the Front of Popular Masses of the State of Guerrero announced that they would proceed legally before international institutions against governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero in the case of the ecologists. Beyond this, Humberto Salgado Gomez, secretary for Governance, claimed that Villa Mojica was herself responsible for her death and that of her 10-yaer old son, because she had temporarily left her escort.
For more information (in Spanish):
Alerta el Consejo Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas sobre el Exterminio de dirigentes campesinos en el Estado de Guerrero (CONOC, 30 de noviembre de 2012)
Activista, responsable de su muerte; se salió del perímetro de resguardo: gobierno de Guerrero (Proceso, 29 de noviembre de 2012)
La sierra de Guerrero, el reino de talamontes, narcos, paramilitares…(Proceso, 29 de noviembre de 2012)
Denunciarán ONG omisión del gobernador en el caso Juventina (La Jornada de Guerrero, 30 de noviembre de 2012)
Juventina Villa provocó su muerte y la de su hijo: gobierno de Guerrero (La Jornada, 30 de noviembre de 2012)
Tenían vigilancia y aun así asesinan a activista y su hijo en Guerrero (Proceso, 28 de noviembre de 2012)
For more information from SIPAZ (in English):
Guerrero: new displacement of families from La Laguna to Puerto de las Ollas (7 December 2012)
Guerrero: two nephews of ecological leadership are murdered (16 November 2012)
Guerrero: Urgent Action for disappeared ecologists (8 February 2012)
Guerrero briefs: Two ecologists are kidnapped by armed men in the Sierra de Petatlán (14 December 2011)
Guerrero: violence in the Sierra de Petalán (17 October 2011)
Guerrero: Lucio Cabañas’ widow and her sister are murdered (17 July 2011)
Guerrero: Second murder of ecologists in the Sierra de Petatlán (9 June 2011)
Guerrero: The ecologist campesino Javier Torres Cruz is murdered (6 May 2011)
Guerrero – briefs: Concern for the safety of the inhabitants of La Morena (28 December 2010)
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