Angel Hidalgo Espinosa
Prision de Alta Seguridad
El Amate
Chiapas
Mexico
Angel Hidalgo Espinosa
The leader of a farmers’ group in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state was convicted Friday in the slayings of eight peasants and sentenced to 37 years in prison. A court determined that Angel Hidalgo Espinosa was part of a group of armed men wearing ski masks who opened fire on the farmers four years ago over a land dispute near Venustiano Carranza, 60 miles south of the state capital, Tuxtla Gutierrez.