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On the Streets of Oaxaca, the People Remember Brad Will

by Narco News (reposted)
“Covering the Current Events in Oaxaca Since Brad’s Death Has Been a Completely Different Experience”
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By James Daria
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Oaxaca

October 30, 2006

Word quickly spread on the streets of Oaxaca Friday that an American journalist had been killed. His death, along with two others, at the hands of gunmen allied with the hated governor Ulises Ruiz and his Institutional Revolutionary Party fueled an international controversy that led Mexican president Vicente Fox to send in federal police to restore order to a city that for over five months has been the site of a popular uprising. His death, in fact, over shadows the death of two other Oaxacans the same day. Unfortunately, when a Oaxacan is killed it doesn’t make the news. When an American is killed it makes headlines.

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http://narconews.com/Issue43/article2258.html
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