Activist's killing angers Mexicans

Dozens of people have demonstrated outside the Canadian embassy in Mexico City against the killing of an anti-mining activist. The protesters blame the death of Mariano Abarca on a Canadian-owned mining company, Blackfire Exploration Ltd , which is operating in the southern Chiapas state. Activists said that Abarca had feared for his life and had recently told police that Blackfire mine officials had threatened him. "They had threatened him, they had beaten him, and the only thing left for them was to kill Mariano, they had said that, and the authorities knew it," Gustavo Castro, one of the demonstrators, said on Thursday. Abarca was shot in the head and chest last Friday by a man on a motorcycle in the town of Chicomuselo, near the Guatemalan border.