Mexican labor organizer tortured, murdered

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

note the other end of the bell curve isn't without danger:

searching for murdered millionaires got me some right away:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/04/03/ctv.mayhew.trial/index.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/19/content_3108981.htm

but "murdered billionaires" seems to be the stuff of fiction and 
computer games, at least from what I could find on a seach engine...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 08:24 PM
> To: 'P-list'
> Subject: Mexican labor organizer tortured, murdered
> 
> http://www.thismodernworld.com/
> 
> On April 9, the bound and beaten body of 29-year-old labor organizer
> Santiago Rafael Cruz was discovered at the Mexico City headquarters
> his employer, the Foreign Labor Organizing Committee. (FLOC)
> 
> Facing South has an an exclusive report on the murder, which many fear
> was retribution for attempting to organize agricultural guest workers
> across borders. Facing South has learned that Rafael Cruz's body bore
> signs of torture and that he had been harassed and threatened prior to
> his murder. Yet police are investigating the death as a common crime,
> or an internal union power struggle.
>