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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2008 
2 Mexicans May Have Died in FARC Attack
 Mark Stevenson - Associated Press
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| | In this photo released by the Ecuadorean Army, Mexican citizen Lucia Morett lies in a hospital bed in Quito, Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Morett and two Colombian women were found injured March 1 in the camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. that was attack by Colombian security forces killing 24 guerrillas, including Colombian rebel spokesman Raul Reyes. (AP/Ecuadorean Army) | | |
Mexico City - The Mexican government says it is investigating whether two of its citizens were killed in the Colombian attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador in which a Mexican university student was also wounded.
Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said on Wednesday that it was "working with Ecuador and Colombia to corroborate reports of two Mexicans who possibly died in the incident."
The department did not identify either of the dead, but it appears that one of them — and the wounded woman — were members of a radical student group at Mexico's National Autonomous University, or UNAM, who attended a leftist conference in Ecuador's capital last month.
The school issued a statement expressing "its concern over the possibility that another member of the university community may have been killed" in the raid.
A Web site operated by a radical UNAM student movement, Okupacheweb, confirmed the man named by the newspaper was a member of the Mexican FARC Support Group, and that the wounded woman, Lucia Andrea Morett, was as well.
Okupacheweb described both Morett and the student who died "internationalist militants" but not guerrilla fighters. In an unsigned e-mail to The Associated Press, it said the man had been in Ecuador to attend a Bolivarian congress in late February, referring to a movement partly inspired by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Morett also apparently attended the same meeting. |
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