Mexico Indigenous Community Leader Murdered
Published 21 May 2017
The Indigenous community has demanded that authorities investigate the killing.
An Indigenous community leader in Mexico has been assassinated alongside his brother, Mexico’s La Jornada newspaper reported, as the country’s human rights situation continues to spark national and international alarm just days after the murder of a renowned veteran journalist.
Miguel Vazquez Flores, president of the communal lands commission representing the Wixarika Indigenous community of San Sebastian Teponahuaxtlan in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, was murdered with his brother Saturday around 6:00 p.m. local time in Tuxpan de Bolaños, another Wixarika community.
The murders come just days after Mexican journalist and author Javier Valdez — a prominent drug crime reporter with La Jornada in Sinaloa, founder of the magazine Riodoce and author of several books — was shot dead in broad daylight in the city of Culiacan. The high-profile assassination came on the heels of a new report that dubbed Mexico the world’s second most deadly conflict zone, next only to Syria.
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