In Chicontepec, Veracruz, members of the "Other Campaign in la Huasteca" activist network issued a statement Aug. 31 protesting the "disappearance" of three of the 10 Nahua campesinos detained at a June land occupation and since freed pending charges against them. All ten had gone to a local federal courthouse to check in and sign documents as a condition of their release, and three never returned. The others said they had been detained at the courthouse by elements of the Federal Agency of Investigation (AFI), and are presumably being held at the federal prison at Tuxpan. However, authorities deny any record of their arrest. (La Jornada [2], Sept. 1)
See our last posts on the Mexico [3], the human rights crisis [4] and the struggle in Veracruz [5].
