Aguas Blancas Massacre
One of the results of this incident was the creation of the Popular Revolutionary Army, a leftist guerrilla organization.
Planning of the massacre
Allegedly, the Guerrero secretary of government, José Rubén Robles Catalán, and Gustavo Olea Godoy, head of the state police, were waiting in a helicopter some meters away, and took off when the first shot was fired. Governor of Guerrero Rubén Figueroa Alcocer had previously had a conversation with María de la Luz Núñez Ramos, the municipal president of Atoyac de Álvarez, saying measures had been taken so that the group would not reach Atoyac and that they would stop them by whatever means necessary. After the massacre he had another conversation with her, saying "They came for war, and war they got. Are we, or are we not the authority?". In spite of his initial defense of the police's actions, Figueroa Alcocer ended up resigning as governor of Guerrero on 12 March 1996.
See also
References
- ^ "La matanza de Aguas Blancas". Archived from the original on 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
- ^ "Personajes ilustres: Rubén Figueroa Alcocer" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Huitzuco. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
External links
- Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, "Massacre in Mexico: Killings and Cover up in the State of Guerrero" (Dec. 1995)
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, "Aguas Blancas", Merits Report No. 49/97, Case 11.520 (Feb. 1998)