U.S. citizens arrested for asking Oaxaca governor about Brad Will's murder

[Derechos]

On Thursday January 28, at around 9 p.m. Andrea Caraballo, Guadalupe Rodriguez Lopez, James Wells and Jennifer Lawhorne were eating ice cream in the zocalo of Oaxaca. At that time, one of us recognized the face of the governor of Oaxaca who was about nine feet away from us. As a friend of Brad Will, a U.S. journalist who was killed in Oaxaca in 2006, one of us took advantage of the governor's presence to ask him about the case of Mr. Will, which to this day remains unresolved. We didn't receive a response from the governor who continued walking and we continued strolling in the zocalo with our ice creams. Five minutes later, between six and eight police agents, some in official uniform and others dressed in plainclothes, surrounded us, demanding to see our identifications and made us walk with them to a municipal police truck. While the police forced us to get into the back of the truck, we asked them why they were taking us away and to where they were going to take us. The police refused to give us any information. We were actually very afraid and worried for our safety.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/31/18636655.php

[roody]

1. Scary! And we are sending Mexico $$$$$

to further militarize it.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks for the material. Our money is used to support this barbaric behavior. Damned sad. n/t

[EFerrari]

3. Brad Will was murdered by this governor's thugs.

And we all know it.