MicroSitio / Nochixtlan: Mixtec Blood Spilled Over Mining Concessions

Beginning June 13, 2016, the Mixtec population blocked the way of federal forces are arriving in Oaxaca to impose the Education Reform. On the morning of June 19, 2016, the blockade located by the town of Nochixtlán is removed. The majority of the inhabitants didn't know that at the site where the attack began, and the places where the violence of the operation ordered by the state government of Gabino Cué Monteagudo and the federal government of Enrique Peña Nieto would later spread, lie on top of or are a few kilometers away from different mineral deposits.

Once again, after a brief period of indifference, the eyes of the entire planet turned towards the southern state of Oaxaca; the roar of dozens of pistols and high-caliber weapons fired by police against the Mixtec population caught the world’s attention.

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