La Sabana, Oaxaca, Mexico -- On Tuesday, April 27, paramilitaries attacked an aid convoy and killed two human rights workers, identified in news sources as Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo, director of CACTUS (Center of Community Support Working Together) and Jyri Jaakkola, a Finnish human rights observer. Cariño was one of the community leaders Christian Peacemaker Teams accompanied during its presence in Oaxaca in December 2006. Jaakkola was one of several human rights workers accompanying the caravan.

"We organize women's collectives to make clothing and table cloths; what's
wrong with that?" said Bety Cariño tearfully to a group of Mixteca women
in northern Oaxaca.  Cariño, the director of CACTUS, was describing to the
women the recent surge in government repression of the movement for justice
in this impoverished, primarily indigenous, state.