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Four years since the sssassination of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes, the people of Oaxaca do not forget and demands justice

The crime executed on August 22 2006, when the Caravan of Death took the life of the architect Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes, was commemorated last Sunday, where the peoples of Oaxaca demanded punishment to those guilty-the police and paramilitary who serve as functionaries to the state government.
By: 
Daniel Arellano Chávez in Kaos en la Red

The crime executed on August 22 2006, when the Caravan of Death took the life of the architect Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes was commemorated last Sunday, where the peoples of Oaxaca demanded punishment to those guilty-the police and paramilitary who serve as functionaries to the state government. 


A little after 4pm on August 22 2010, dozens of wooden crosses painted in black and with names painted in white were placed around the Fountain of Seven Region; such names included women and men that were assassinated with orders from the governor. 


Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes! Present now and forever! were the continuous chants shouted by peoples starting at the beginning of the march up until the end of the march at the Fountain of the Seven Regions.  Family members of Lorenzo gave a few words to state their indignation for the impunity that the assassins still hold. 


During the march, messages of indignation were painted on walls of businesses that originally had political party messages, including messages from the offices of the PRI political party and the governor whom expressed repudiation towards the assassins. 


Among people in the manifestation were women and children wearing red traditional blouses with laces of different colors, traditional from the Triqui communities, who were carrying 3 black boxes symbolizing the coffins of the three Triquis peoples who were assassinated the day before during ambush, when they were on their way to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala. 
Banners and dozens of black crosses with names painted in white were in the march, including the names of  Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes, José Jiménez Colmenares, Jorge Alberto López Bernal, Pánfilo Hernández Vázquez, Alejandro García, Timoteo Alejandro Ramírez, Cleriberta Castro, Jyri Antero Jaakola, Bety Cariño Trujillo, Marcos García Tapia, Andres Santiago, Pedro Martinez, Octavio Martinez, Arcadio Fabian, and many other men and women who  were assassinated during the popular movement by orders of the bad government. 


While walking past the place where Lorenzo Sampablo was ambushed by the Caravan of Death, the march made a stop for Petra Gonzalez and her son to make an homage to their father, while carrying a cross that had the name Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes 22 VIII 2006. 


The cultural-political event was held after the march near the cathedral, where family members of Lorenzo delivered speeches.  People from different organizations and from various social movements also participated and manifested their indignation and solidarity.  During the end, musical groups including The Mastuerzo and Leon Chavez Texeiro performed in solidarity with the lucha of the Oaxaca, during the evening while it was drizzling in the zocalo of Oaxaca. 

This 22nd of August of 2010 it was made clear:


We will not forget! Punishment to the assassins!

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