Mexico: Fear for safety

Mexico: Fear for safety

The municipal authorities of the mainly indigenous Mixteca municipality of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, in Oaxaca state, are preparing to sell off an area of communal land. Local people opposed to the sale have been attacked by armed men working for a local political boss (cacique) closely connected to the municipal authorities: three of them were killed on 30 April; their families are taking advice from a local human rights organisation, whose staff are also in grave danger.