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Death Squads in Oaxaca

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3740/death_squads_in_oaxaca/

Excerpt:

The Mexican government ignores the assassination of two community radio activists
By John Gibler
Faustino Vasquez

Driving through the back roads of western Oaxaca state in southwestern Mexico, one could often hear 94.9 FM, Radio Copala, “The Voice that Breaks the Silence.” In one of the station’s tag-lines played several times a day, a slow, piercing violin gave way to the languid voice of a woman singing in Spanish: “I am a rebel because the world has made me that way, because no one ever treated me with love, because no one ever wanted to listen to me.”