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Guatemala lawyer who defended rural and Indigenous people killed in attack

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A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworker and Indigenous groups has been killed in an apparent ambush. Human rights organizations said Thursday that José Domingo was with two members of the United Farmworker Committee when they were shot by a group of men Wednesday south of the capital.

GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan lawyer who worked closely with organizations representing farmworkers and Indigenous groups was killed in an apparent ambush, human rights organizations said Thursday.

Guatemalan authorities had not commented on the attack. The other two men were wounded, one seriously, Pascual said. “It was an ambush, the crime was planned and premeditated,” Pascual said. “Common criminals don’t act that way.”

 

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