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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:31 AM
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"They Ordered Me to Lay My Head In a Pool of Blood"
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http://narconews.com/Issue41/article1802.html

They Ordered Me to Lay My Head In a Pool of Blood
A Letter from Valentina Palma, Chilean Anthropology Student and Filmmaker Who Was Beaten, Tortured and Deported After the Violence in Atenco


By Valentina Palma Novoa
May 12, 2006

My name is Valentina Palma Novoa. I am 30 years old, and I have spent the last 11 years of my life in Mexico. I am a student at the National School of Anthropology and History, currently in my fourth year studying Cinematography at the Center for Cinematographic Study. I have an FM 3 student visa.

I would like to share with you the events that I witnessed during the violent incidents that occurred in the town of San Salvador Atenco on Thursday, May 4, 2006, which ended with my unjust and arbitrary expulsion from the country.

1.- On Wednesday, May 3, after seeing the news on television and learning of the death of a 14-year-old boy, I was moved by the death of this small child and, as an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, decided to go to San Salvador Atenco to assess the situation.

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http://www.therevealer.org/archives/timely_002540.php

Link is found in last paragraph

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That is, if he's allowed to take power. Dissidents and ordinary citizens in the Mexican town of San Salvador Atenco have learned that the Fox regime is willing to use extreme violence to silence them. And in the case of a visiting anthropologist, the church was no protection.

There are 2 links in this paragraph, one to the above statement and one to the 'violence' used to silence dissidents.
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