Michoacan: Questions Surround 8 Indigenous Deaths In Logging Dispute

Michoacan: Questions Surround 8 Indigenous Deaths In Logging Dispute   Eight indigenous Purépecha were shot dead the morning of Apr. 18 near the autonomous community of Cherán in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. Two of the victims were from Cherán, which has been engaged in a year-long struggle to protect local forests from illegal loggers; six of the people killed were from the town of Casimiro Leco, better known as El Cerecito, where many of the loggers live.   According to...

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