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The Death of a Human Rights Lawyer

Thursday, April 27, 2006

In 2003, a Mexican human rights lawyer was found dead. She had been shot in the leg and the head, with a death threat next to her body. The Mexican government ruled that it was a probable suicide, but journalist Linda Diebel disagrees. In Betrayed, she argues that Digna Ochoa was assassinated, and that the Mexican government is implicated in the cover-up.


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