ABSTRACT
On January 12, 1998, in the town of Ocosingo, a number of peasant and civil society groups held a public demonstration against the Acteal massacre and militarism in Chiapas. During the march, the seguridad publica (state police) fired randomly into the crowd. Their bullets killed Guadalupe Méndez López, a 38-year-old woman demonstrator, and injured her infant child. The state police were in Ocosingo as a result of Roberto Albores Guillén, substitute state governor at the time, ordering police and military incursions into the communities of autonomous townships.
