Michoacán: Indigenous Leader Teódulo Santos Girón Murdered

Michoacán: Indigenous Leader Teódulo Santos Girón Murdered   The body of indigenous teacher and activist Teódulo Santos Girón was found on May 16 in the town cemetery in La Ticla in the western Mexican state of Michoacán. According to official sources, Santos Girón, who had just finished his term as a local official in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María Ostula, had been kidnapped in La Ticla the night before; he was shot in the head and in the body.   Santos Girón was...

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