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- From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Assassinations of Gays in Mexico
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.190928.1755@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:09:28 GMT
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- /* Written 9:57 am Jul 21, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:carnet.mexnews */
- /* ---------- "Assassinations of Gays in Mexico" ---------- */
- To: Josefina Velasquez, Peacenet
- Fax: (415)546-1794 Phone: (415)442-0220
- From: Russ Gage, International Gay/Lesbian Human Rights Committee
- Fax: (415)255-2662 Phone: (415)255-8650
- Date: July 16, 1992
-
- COLECTIVO SOL
- Mexico, D.F., July 15, 1992
-
- To: EL NACIONAL
- Cultural Section
- Mr. Paulino Abugal & Dr. Francisco Galvan
-
- From: Colectivo Sol
-
- We're sorry to send you the following news in this manner. The enclosed
- copies attest to the assassination of Francisco Estrada,
- founding-President of AVE of Mexico, along with two other friends
- last Sunday, July 12, at dawn.
-
- Our dear friend was left dead with the usual signs of such homophobic
- homicides and we are not waiting for a response from the putrid press.
-
- We are feeling disdain, hurt and extremely indignant at these acts and we
- want you propose - to the ['unreal'] assembly of gays and lesbians - a real
-
- solution.
-
- The yellow press is quite placid: it has enough crap to distribute at a
- barnyard. In addition to a series of assassinations in Chiapas and the death
- of the transvestite youth of Oaxaca, the treacherous detention at sunrise of
- Mema and Josefina. Now add to this two more assassinations.
-
- It appears as if this horror is unending. We suspect that this is part of
- a treacherous campaign to undermine and minimize the work of gay and AIDS
- activists.
-
- IGL, we will leave to your discretion the organizing of any actions. In 1989
- in Vienna, a demonstration was organized in front of the Argentinean embassy
- and the results were positive. Therefore, we propose a demonstration in
- front of the Mexican embassy along with the following demands:
-
- demand that the government follow-up with an investigation which
- completely encompasses all of the cases until they are resolved and
-
- that these acts be denounced (Oaxaca, Chiapas and now in the Federal
- District (DF)
-
- publicly denounce the vulture-like attitude of the press which
- has sought to assassinate the victims for a second time through
- theirhomophobic violence
-
- insist on the energetic intervention of CONASIDA in order to counter
- the slanted information that is being dispersed
-
- end to the police harassment of gays, which is evident in the press'
- tendency to project the victims as responsible for their own murders
- ("there were dildos, marijuana, they had 'AIDS'") and denounce the
- promotion of death squads, whose only function is to incite those
- fascists who belong to one.
-
-
- by Colectivo Sol
-
- Unofficial translation by PeaceNet
-
-
-