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Fifth visit for the incidents in Oaxaca

 

 

 

Interview with Dr. Berta Elena Muñoz

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The CCIODH has met with dozens of personal testimonies and organizations. Yesterday the CCIODH met with doctor Berta Elena Muñoz, a doctor who participated in the emergency aid posts and was the spokesperson of Radio Universidad (of the Autonomous University Benito Juarez of Oaxaca.) Doctor Muñoz is currently in voluntary hiding, due to the death threats towards herself and her children she has received through cell phone calls and a radio. Doctor Muñoz relates what she has experienced during the months of May through November. She tells of the actions of "death squads made up of municipal and ministerial police." She defends that the revolt in Oaxaca has had a peaceful character in its 7 months of history, and denounces that "one walked on the street and if he seemed suspicious or looked like a student, they scooped him up in trucks and beat him and took him away. They entered houses[…] and i knew in that moment, in those days, what is terrorism of the State."
She highlights the precarious state of basic rights in the Oaxaca population and holds responsible the federal government to solve the conflict. She also holds it responsible for guaranteeing her own security.