Chilean Doctor and Political Activist Murdered in Mexico
Source: Prensa Latina
Chilean Doctor and Political Activist Murdered in Mexico
Mexico, Feb 28 (Prensa Latina) Surgeon Venancio Queupumil Cabrera, member of the Chilean Communist Party, persecuted by Augusto Pinochet''s regime, was murdered in his clinic in the state of Mexico, according to reports today.
According to witnesses, two individuals pretended to be friends, tied him up and shot him several times, the Attorney General's Office in the State of Mexico reported. They ruled out the robbery as the motive for the murder, because the attackers went out of the clinic without taking valuable things.
Priests Alejandro Solalinde, a defender of human rights, especially those of immigrants, deplored the murder of the doctor, considered by him as a victim of this criminal system, he wrote, using his Twitter account.
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Queupumil was persecuted by Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990). Thus, he managed to escape.
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Dr. Venancio Queupumil Cabrera [/center]
Judi Lynn
(160,630 posts)Chilean exile doctor was killed in Mexico
Sunday February 28, 2016 | La Nacion published by: César Morales
The doctor and activist Chilean Venancio Queupumil Cabrera, who was exiled during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was killed during an assault on clinic property located in the city of Cuautitlan Izcalli, where he was living a few years ago, according to the portal the Mexican newspaper Proceso, The Public of that commune, located in the state of Mexico Security, reported the doctor's death 60 years in clinical Santa Isabel.
According to the Aztec newspaper account, Queupumil was killed last Thursday when two men posing as patients entered the clinic, tied him up and shot him multiple times.
The prosecution denied that the motive for the attack has been stolen, because the attackers left the scene without taking valuables. The doctor was active in the Communist Party and current member of the Proletarian was Rumbo. He left Chile with the help of Amnesty International.
The doctor also was a candidate for mayor of Cuautitlan Izcalli in 2012 by the Citizens Movement party. In his Twitter account, Queupumil indicated that he was a surgeon trained in Havana, Mexican Mapuche blood and by adoption. Retired IMSS. So far mexiquenses authorities do not have clues to the homicidal or have made an arrest in the case.
http://www.entornointeligente.com/articulo/7985115/Medico-exiliado-chileno-fue-asesinado-en-Mexico
(Short article, no more at link. (Spanish.))
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(1,890 posts)Thanks for both posts Judi Lynn.