Who killed Brad Will?

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Oaxaca, Mexico — Those of us who report from the front lines of the social-justice movement in Latin America share an understanding that there's always a bullet out there with our name on it. Brad Will traveled 2,500 miles, from New York to this violence-torn Mexican town, to find his.

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There are larger geopolitics at work here.

The US Department of State has a certain conflict of interest in trying to push first-year Mexican president Calderón to collar Will's killers. The crackdown in Oaxaca was all about a political deal between Calderón's PAN and Ruiz's PRI: if PAN saved the governor's ass, the PRI would support the president's legislative package.

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It is not easy to imagine Brad Will as a pawn in anyone's power game, but as the months tick by and his killing and killers sink into the morass of memory, that is exactly what he is becoming.



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