Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA

CAFTA Protester Has Leg Amputated after Clash with Security Forces

April 15, 2005

On March 15, campesinos and teachers who demonstrated against the Central American Free Trade Agreement, recently ratified in the Guatemalan Congress, met with repressive measures from Guatemalan security forces in Colotenango, Huehuetenango. During the demonstration, combined police and military forces fired upon protestors leaving Juan López Velásquez dead and twelve injured. Among the injured was Miguel Ángel Vásquez, a primary school teacher who has his left leg removed as a result of injuries he suffered that day.

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