San Miguel Canoa Massacre
The Masacre of San Miguel Canoa was a lynching that occurred in the village of San Miguel Canoa in Puebla, México on 14 September 1968. A right-wing priest incited a mob of villagers to murder five mountain climbers who the priest believed were communists.[1][2]
Incident
In September of 1968, five employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla decided to climb La Malinche, a mountain in central Mexico. However, due to adverse weather conditions, had to stay the night in the village San Miguel Canoa. Upon arriving, the priest called them communists and incited villagers to riot and kill the visitors. All five were killed in the lynching.
Two weeks later, a related incident, the Tlatelolco massacre occurred in which around 400 people were killed by government forces.
Reaction
Filmmaker Felipe Cazals made a biopic chronicling the event called Canoa: A Shameful Memory.