SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MEXICO. JANUARY 20, 2010 – It is about 8pm on Friday, November 27. In Chicomuselo, a town of about 5,000 souls located about 200 km southeast of San Cristobal de las Casas near the border with Guatemala, the sun has just set. Fifty-year-old Don Mariano Abarca Roblero, father of four and leader of the struggle against the mining industry in the state, is inside his car and talking with an acquaintance, Orlando Velasquez, who is outside the car, leaning against the window. A man gets off a motorcycle, moves towards the car, and shoots at Mariano. He hits him in the neck, chest, and heart. He kills him with a calculated coldness. On of the shots passes through Abarca's body and wounds Orlando Velasquez in the thigh.

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