Oaxaca Solidarity Alert: Teacher Assassinated in the Loxicha Region

Central Penitentiary, State of Oaxaca, December 16, 2009

TO THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE GROUPS
TO THE DEMOCRATIC TEACHERS OF SECTION 22, SNTE, OAXACA, OAX.
TO THE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA
TO THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA, MEXICO, AND THE WORLD

We, the political prisoners and prisoners of conscience of the
Loxicha Region who are still locked up in this prison, are writing to
your organizations to let you know about the recent murder of an
Indigenous Education professor who was working in the Loxicha Region
and about the killings of other citizens. Day by day, state repression
against the Zapotec people of Loxicha is heightened, creating an
intolerable political climate precisely at the time when people are
beginning to reconstruct the social fabric that was torn apart by State
repression in 1996. For this reason, we, the Loxicha political
prisoners and prisoners of conscience, from our battle front,
vigorously repudiate the cowardly murder of professor ELEAZAR MARTINEZ
ALMARAZ, who was shot down on the morning of December 14, as well as
the murders of other Zapotec people, whose cases have resulted in
absolute impunity.

We hold the state and municipal governments responsible for these
bloody deeds, as well as the paramilitary groups that operate in the
region, destabilizing the residents’ social life.

We hereby demand that the relevant authorities promptly investigate
and punish the masterminds and perpetrators of these crimes in
accordance with the law. Enough is enough of all this injustice by the
authorities and impunity for them. It’s their duty to see that the
people live in peace and harmony.

Respectfully yours,

POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE OF THE LOXICHA REGION, OAXACA

C. AGUSTIN LUNA VALENCIA
C. FORTINO ENRIQUEZ HERNANDEZ
C. ALVARO SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ
C. ABRAHAM GARCIA RAMIREZ
C. MARIO AMBROSIO MARTINEZ
C. JUSTINO HERNANDEZ JOSE
C. ZACARIAS P. GARCIA LOPEZ