On Monday, 7th of june 2004, the Zapatist Eduardo Vázquez Álvaro was murdered in bright daylight in the middle of the city centre of Chilón.
The 50 year old indigenous activist was imprisoned for several years in the prison Cerro Hueco and as such member of the zapatista prisoner organisation "The voice of Cerro Hueco".
In liberty again since 2001, he lived again in Chilón (near Palenque).
This Monday the indigneous Chol Eduardo has been attacked by five men with two cars.
They shot him three times, in the skull, the breast and the abdomen, injured him with a machete when he was lying on the ground and drove the cars over the liveless body of Eduardo.

On Tuesday a demonstration took place in Chilón by hundreds of Zapatistas and sympathisers, who accused the local great land owners of being the manipulators of the murder of Eduardo. A caravan of police and military units, which wanted to patrol the village, had to withdraw under the hail of stones by the demonstrators, reported by Expreso Chiapas.

The brutal murder of Eduardo unfortunately shows once more that in Chiapas the great land owners and their pistoleros can still commit their crimes in broad daylight.