Missing-student activist killed in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Missing-student activist killed in Mexico
Updated 21 minutes ago

A Mexican community activist who helped families search for their missing relatives has been killed. Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco's body was found near his home in a town in the south-western state of Guerrero.

He had led search parties after the disappearance of 43 students in the nearby town of Iguala last year threw light on hundreds of other missing people.

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Mr Jimenez Blanco's body was found in the taxi he owned in the small town of Xaltianguis.

He had been part of an organisation which had supported the search for the students in the hills around Iguala. He had also helped dig up a number of graves of murdered people that were found during the search for the students. He had helped organise a group called The Other Disappeared, mostly women who meet every Sunday to search the hills for the remains of their loved ones.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Mexican activist in search of missing students killed, received threats

Mexican activist in search of missing students killed, received threats
Jose Antonio Rivera, The Associated Press
Published Monday, August 10, 2015 2:49PM EDT

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Jimenez also organized community police efforts to fight kidnappings, killings and extortion by criminal gangs, and drives to document vote fraud in June's midterm elections.

In an April interview with Kara Andrade, a doctoral student at American University, Jimenez said he had received death threats from "people who are involved in things and whose interests I have impacted."
"They've chased me, in my town (Xaltianguis) they've tailed and followed me from place to place," Jimenez said.

Still he kept up his activism in Guerrero, a state plagued by drug trafficking and cultivation, gang battles, extortion, illegal logging and land disputes.

"I don't do this because of me or the abuses we live now. I do this for the next generation and for my children," Jimenez said. "If someone doesn't sacrifice themselves right now, I ask myself who will?"

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/mexican-activist-in-search-of-missing-students-killed-received-threats-1.2510445