Oaxaca Caravan Attack: The Paramilitarization of Mexico https://nacla.org/node/6563

The government has good reason to want to weaken the Triquis: They have historically put up some of the fiercest resistance to the colonial (and later neocolonial) project in Mexico. "As a result of their armed defense,” John Gibler writes in his book Mexico Unconquered, “the Triqui region today is a green oasis in the midst of the eroded Mixteca region where centuries of clear-cutting and goat herding have decimated the land

."The natural and agricultural resources that the Triquis control, combined with their fierce determination to defend them, makes them a prime target for government intervention and repression.According to sociologist Víctor Raúl Martínez Vásquez, the attack was a “deliberate act on the part of the government.” The idea, he said, was “to teach them a lesson and to dissuade those foreigners who want to help this town that is under siege, where they've closed the road to the community, they've cut the electricity.”

comment-also see... Obama's Role in the Militarization of Mexico http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16654