[news] Fox Government Arrests Indigenous Farmers in Chiapas for Planting Radishes and Flowers

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Al Giordano | The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas | September 9, 2006

On Friday, Juan Jiménez, 33, and Pedro Jiménez Gómez, 18, armed with gardening rakes, walked out to work the field where they cultivate radishes, cucumbers, carrots and flowers to sell in the markets of San Cristóbal, Chiapas. Agents of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR, in its Spanish initials) seized their rakes and placed the two men under arrest. As of Saturday morning they were still imprisoned in the PGR offices of San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

  


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