David Venegas" title="David Venegas" class="image thumbnail" height="100" width="73"> [2]David VenegasAfter nearly 11 months in prison, David Venegas Reyes [3], a leader of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), was released from Santa María Ixcotel penitentiary, following the issuing of a judicial order (amparo) protecting him from further prosecution, citing insufficient evidence. The charges have not been formally dropped. (La Jornada [4], March 6) Vengas Reyes received threats on his life and those of his family while in detention last year. (Venegas Reyes letter, May 2, 2007, online at Casa de Paz [5], Chiapas)
See our last posts on Mexico [6] and the struggle in Oaxaca [7].
