Alberta Cariño
Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo, a , was the director of CACTUS (), a community organization in Oaxaca, Mexico. On April 27, 2010, she was killed when paramilitaries ambushed a caravan on its way to the indigenous autonomous community of San Juan Copala. The caravan, including local and international human rights observers, was delivering food to the community which has been under a blockade from paramilitaries allied with the state government.[1] The gunmen also killed Jyri Jaakkola, a Finnish human rights activist, and more than ten people were wounded.
Cariño was Mixtec and an advocate for food sovereignty, community water management, soil conservation and the right to autonomy for indigenous peoples in Mexico.[2][3] As part of her work with CACTUS, she worked to organize women's collectives in northern Oaxaca. She was one of the leaders of CACTUS forced to temporarily flee Oaxaca in December 2006 after government repression in response to the 2006 Oaxaca protests.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Take Action for Sang-gyun Han". Front Line Defenders. July 11, 2016.
- ^ "Testimony by Bety Cariño to the Front Line Dublin Platform, February 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2010.
- ^ "'Food Fight' Café at Seomra Spraoi 22nd April - Indymedia Ireland". www.indymedia.ie.
- ^ "OAXACA, MEXICO: "What's wrong with that?" | Christian Peacemaker Teams". cpt.org.
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