while the US targets vandalism as the #1 domestic terrorist threat, nothing is being done to seek justice for the people who have been killed in Oaxaca (including US journalist Brad Will). but can we really expect the US to condemn state-sponsored terrorism?

from today’s Democracy Now:

Press reports out of Mexico indicate the gunmen suspected of murdering New York journalist Brad Will are missing and not in police custody. Will died on Friday after being shot by paramilitaries in Oaxaca. The 36-year-old Indymedia journalist had his videocamera in his hand. Photos taken at the time of the shooting show the armed men who carried out the attack. They have been identified as local police officers and government officials. Initially a local mayor said five men had been detained. But the Mexican papers Milenio and Noticias de Oaxaca are now reporting that no arrests have been made.

You can listen to or read the interview with journalist John Gibler who talks about how the suspected shooters are not missing, they just aren’t being prosecuted in any way. The interview also talks about the others who were killed in the recent siege in Oaxaca and how the people in Oaxaca are still staying strong in their fight for the city.

UPDATE: The Mexican government is now trying to shut down independent reporting and cripple the people’s movement in Oaxaca by attacking the University of Oaxaca, which houses Radio APPO.

UPDATE (11/3 @ noon): Two of the five suspected shooters have been detained. I still don’t have an update on the police raid on the University other than Democracy Now described it by saying, “It marked the most intense fighting since Mexican President Vicente Fox ordered thousands of federal police into the city to crush the popular uprising.”

UPDATE (11/3 @ 8pm): bfp has updates on the university raid.