Yosoyuxi Copala, Oaxaca October 18, 2010. The faces who accompanied Teresa during her burial into the earth to be newly born were full of despair and mistrust; her mother with tears in her eyes spoke in her indigenous language, Triqui, the suffer she has suffered, “she did nothing except want to have a family with her husband Jordan Ramirez Gonzalez and her 6 children”.

Teresa was four months into labor and had the intention of building her home in Yosoyuxi. After escaping San Juan Copala on September 19^th under heavy firearm, became one in 300 other families whom have been displaced due to the repression they face from paramilitaries who have been identified since November 2009 as the MULT (Movimiento Unificador de la Lucha Triqui) and the UBISORT (Unión de Bienestar Social de la Región Triqui).

Agustina, unable to hold her tears stated that she finds herself in the encampment of those displaced located in Mexico City,and that she went to visit her family, “I arrive to Juxtlahuaca and I find out that my sister was murdered. What are we going to do with the chidren?” The little ones without fully understanding the situation are left with perplexed faces. Three of the children were travelling with Teresa when she was assassinated and the father was severely injured; Rafael Antonio, 3 years old, Efrain, one and a half years old, and Alexandra Ramirez Ramirez, four years old who was suffered an ear injury during the attack.

“The three were full of blood from their mother, we cleaned them, and they were crying a lot, but we did not properly check for wounds, neither did the medics. We picked up the children in Juxtlahuaca, where their mother was”; Agustina recounts they had to quicken the process because the Public Minester of Juxtlahuaca, Alejandro Ramirez Cruz, cautioned that if the family did not take the body at that moment that they would leave them all there, without fully knowing that there were 2 children with minor injuries.

At approximately 4.30 PM, the body of Teresa was accompanied by friends, family, and six children and husband towards the graveyard ini Yosoyuxi.

This marks another death of a Triqui woman, where the Mexican Government is not interested in acknowledging her death upon injustice

The future of the chidren of Teresa and Jordan: Maritel, Fidelfia, Orlando, Alexandra, Rafael Antonio y Efrain of 13, 12, 9, 4, 3, and 1 years of age, is uncertain. The family is unsure what will become of them, who will take care of them and the many other children in the Triqui region that are left with only the memory of their deceased parents.