OAXACA JOURNALIST SHOT AND WOUNDED:

The Committee to protect Journalists has issued a press release condemning the recent attack on Miseal Sanchez Sarmiento, a reporter working for the Oaxaca dail Tiempo. Sarmiento had covered political news for the paper and had reported in Nov. 2006 on the killing of US Indymedia journalist Bradley Will. despite the fact that Tiempo is a pro-government paper Sarmiento's reporting earned him the animosity of many political figures in the Oaxaca government. Since 2000 six journalists in Mexico have been killed in direct reprisal for their political reporting, and there are 12 other killings that the CPJ is investigating. There are also 5 cases of "disappearance" of journalists in which the fate of the person is unknown. To read more about this case go to http://www.cpj.org/news/2007/americas/mexico13jun07na.html