Activist's killing angers Mexicans

Al Jazeera

December 4, 2009

Dozens of people have demonstrated outside the Canadian embassy in Mexico City against the killing of an anti-mining activist. The protesters blame the death of Mariano Abarca on a Canadian-owned mining company, Blackfire Exploration Ltd , which is operating in the southern Chiapas state. Activists said that Abarca had feared for his life and had recently told police that Blackfire mine officials had threatened him.