On 27 November 2009, at approximately 7.45pm, Mr Mariano Abarca Roblero was assassinated in Chicomuselo, the seat of municipal government in Chiapas. Mariano Abarca Roblero was a member of the human rights organisation Dos Valles Valientes (“Two Brave Valleys”), a movement opposed to mining operations, and was a follower of la Red Mexicana de Afectados por la Mineríá (REMA - the Mexican Network of those Affected by Mining).