Global network demands accountability in the murder of US Journalist Brad Will
No to Plan Mexico!!!
‘Please consider this site a resource for your (own) actions to support Brad Will’s memory, his family and friends, and the people of Mexico.’
Contact:
Friends of Brad Will, Media Representative, Harry Bubbins
h.bubbins(at)gmail(dot)com
FriendsofBradWill.org
Friends of Brad Will, a global network pushing for accountability in the murder of US journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006, denounced plans to fund a “Plan Mexico”.
“One year after the murder of Brad Will, no one has been arrested. Under the guise of stopping drug trafficking, US taxpayers could be funding human rights violations, corrupt local officials and Blackwater-style mercenaries in Oaxaca and elsewhere. This is exactly the wrong message to send at this time.” said Harry Bubbins, a media representative for Friends of Brad Will.
FoBW has drawn attention to the fact that Congress has been kept out of the discussions about this $1.4 billion initiative, finally due to be discussed by Congress in Washington on Thursday. As the BBC reported, Mr Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have been working on the details of the
plan for several weeks.
“We are confident that Congress will ask hard questions about the murder of a US citizen, and not just rubber stamp this military aid package that could lead to further human rights abuses.” added Mr. Bubbins.
Activists with Friends of Brad Will intend to be present at Congressional Hearings on October 25th and has suggested four questions for the Congress Members to ask the Administration:
i. What has been learned from ‘Plan Colombia’ which makes you think that this aid package will have a good effect on human rights, corruption, and narco-trafficking?
ii. What makes you believe that a country whose police and military are recognized every year in US State Department country reports to be serial abusers of human rights should be lavished with US taxpayer-funded lethal weaponry and training?
iii. Why do you believe this lethal power will not be levelled against activists and ordinary Mexican citizens as has been the case in the past in Atenco, Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca?
iv. What signal are you sending to the Mexican authorities who have ignored those in their ranks who were implicated in the shooting of US journalist Brad Will a year ago Saturday and to those who have engaged in a cover-up which the Mexican media labelled absurd ?
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Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building .
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Time: 2:00 PM
Subject: U.S. Security Assistance to Mexico
witnesses: Panel I
Mr. Jess T. Ford
Director
International Affairs and Trade Team
U.S. Government Accountability Office
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Events and Actions | admin 10/22/2007
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