More Oaxaca Murder
Posted by Colin Brayton on October 19, 2006

Armed, hooded men, some wearing police-issue bulletproof vests, photographed in Oaxaca, in Mexico. A video exists showing men of this description changing clothes in state police cars.
proceso.com.mx reports:
…. en Oaxaca, la violencia volvió a cobrar una víctima más con la ejecución del indígena Pánfilo Hernández, un profesor de nivel primaria del sector Zimatlán, luego que alrededor de las 21:00 horas fuera baleado por desconocidos que viajaban en un Jetta azul, con vidrios polarizados.
Violence claimed another victim in Oaxaca with the execution of Pánfilo Hernández, an elementary school teacher from Zimatlán, who was shot around 9 p.m. by unknown persons traveling in a blue Jetta with mirrored windows.
En conferencia, Florentino López Martínez, vocero de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO), denunció la reanudación de acciones de hostigamiento contra el movimiento magisterial. Reportó que el maestro Pánfilo Hernández recibió tres impactos de bala en el abdomen, hechos por desconocidos que viajaban a bordo de un Jetta, en la colonia Jardín. Los agresores serían los mismos que han sido reportados como los autores de otras balaceras alrededor del zócalo.
In a press conference, Florentino López Martinez, spokesperson for the APPO, denounced the renewal of hostile acts against the teachers’ movement. He said that Hernández was shot three times in the abdomen by three unknown persons traveling in a blue Jetta, in the Colonia Járdin. The attackers may be the same that have been reported committed other shootings in the area of the central marketplace.

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[...] Both Ana Maria Salazar and Mark in Mexico relate, in their respective styles, the heightened political ambitions of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). Colin Brayton describes the murder of “Pánfilo Hernández, an elementary school teacher from Zimatlán, who was shot around 9 p.m. by unknown persons traveling in a blue Jetta with mirrored windows.” [...]