The participation of the Federal Government of Mexico in the cover-up by Lizbet Cana and the Oaxacan State authorities was expected. How could murderers caught on film and witnessed committing this crime be allowed to continue to be free? Meanwhile activists and people mourning those murdered are arrested, surveilled, harrassed and threatened.

I believe that the U.S. Congress is going to oppose Plan Mexico because more lethal aid to unaccountable, brutal and corrupt security forces will not reform them. One doesn’t need to be trained to acknowledge photographic evidence and witness testimony.

The problem isn’t reform; it’s the lack of will among the government authorities in Mexico to end impunity. Giving $1.4 billion to such forces is morally wrong.

We’ll be in D.C. in a week for the hearing on Plan Mexico (Nov. 13-15).

We’re calling our congress people to demand that

a) sec. of state rice testify on plan mexico;

b) peal away from Iraq Appropriations;

c) answers re. brad and others murdered in oaxaca, atenco, and other places;

d) STOP PLAN MEXICO!

great piece! thanks.

Repeatedly the Mexican government has worked to cover-up human rights violations in Mexico and in this case has given Oaxaca’s police officers and sympathizers of the PRI the impunity to commit murder against the people of Oaxaca and journalists covering their story. In the lead up to this release, Friends and Family of Brad Will worried that this report would ignore eye witness reports from journalists and onlookers, video evidence, and other forensic evidence that proves that Will was in fact shot by PRI thugs. We are not ‘dismayed’ as this report states, but in fact more determined to seek justice over the many deaths that have occurred because of corrupt politicians and outlaw paramilitaries.

The Friends of Brad Will are currently pushing for justice for Brad and all those killed in Mexico and fighting US legislation, such as Plan Mexico, that would give more military equipment to a country with a deplorable human rights record.