American Journalist killed in Mexico

An American journalist was killed yesterday. Mexico's problems affect the USA. We have to be informed on the situation south of the border. Oaxaca is so beautiful and so poor. Journalist Bradley Roland Will, 36, of New York, was hit in the abdomen and died later at a Red Cross hospital. Will worked for Indymedia.org, an independent Web-based media organization and sold video on a freelance basis, said friends and Indymedia colleague Hinrich Schuleze. He had been documenting the upheaval in Internet dispatches that showed strong sympathy for the protesters.

Oaxaca, famed for its colonial architecture and as a center of Indian handicrafts and cuisine, is one of the most famous inland tourist attractions in Mexico. Mountains overlooking the city hold the imposing ruins of the Zapotec city of Monte Alban.

Mexico: American Among Dead in Oaxaca


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By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: October 28, 2006


A New York journalist and three other people were shot and killed during protests in the southern city of Oaxaca as left-wing groups seeking to oust Gov. Ulises Ruiz tried to strangle the city with blockades and encountered resistance from the police and ordinary citizens. The violence came as the movement to force Mr. Ruiz to resign seemed to be splintering, with a teachers union whose walkout set off the civil unrest five months ago was close to an agreement with the government to return to classes. The American journalist, Bradley Roland Will, 36, was working with a left-wing Web site called NYC Indymedia and had been in Mexico for several weeks. He was shot while trying to film some men in plainclothes who opened fire on protesters at a roadblock on the outskirts of the city.