Fox News Latino: "The indigenous organization targeted in a 1997 massacre in southern Mexico criticized the filing of a lawsuit against former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo for alleged complicity with the killings.
The suit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, where Zedillo, a Yale University faculty member, now lives. The legal action was brought by a Miami law firm on behalf of 10 plaintiffs who asked to remain anonymous.
In a statement criticizing the U.S. lawsuit, Las Abejas, a grassroots Roman Catholic group whose membership is mainly Tzotzil Indians, said that it is the "only organization which represents survivors of the Acteal massacre.""
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The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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