Guerrero: Political Prisoners

10/14/99

Election Day Violence -- A summary of the political violence surrounding the Oct. 3 local elections in Guerrero. Four case summaries describing what is undoubtedly a result of revenge tactics used by wings of the PRI and their supporters in response to recent election results in Acapulco where the opposition parties won the municipal election for the first time in its history.

10/13/99

Interview with Digna Ochoa -- Interview with Digna Ochoa, lawyer for the Miguel Agustin Pro Human Rights Center about the impunity of the Mexican Army in Guerrero and the case of Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia

9/6/99

Official Petition From The Miguel Agustin Pro Human Rights Center -- The Miguel Agustin Pro Human Rights Center (The PRODH) presented a petition to the 5th District Judge, Jose Martinez Guzman, insisting that the Federal Public Ministry turn over all of the information relating to case of Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, two farmer/ecologists who were tortured at the hands of the Mexican Federal Army in the beginning of May of this year.

8/27/99

Jailed Timber-Cutting Foe Seen As Guerrilla By Mexico Officials -- To his foes, he's a dangerous man, an "eco-guerrilla." But to supporters, Rodolfo Montiel is a humble farmer who tried to save the forest and was jailed for it. "The only bad thing he did was to defend the land, the trees, so we'll have something in the future," said his nephew, Guillermo Miranda Montiel, 28, of Acapulco.