One Zapotec has died and another is in recovery after a group of municipal police officers and other armed men opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the municipality of San José del Progreso, Ocotlán, Oaxaca, Mexico…when members from the community...had gathered to speak out against a pipeline that the mining company Cuzcatlán wants so it can exploit the community's water resources. Cuzcatlán, a subsidiary of the Canadian mining company Fortuna Silver has already received a permit to build the pipeline. Opponents of the mine maintain that the permit should not have been issued because the municipal government failed to obtain the community's free, prior and informed consent…During the confrontation, a group of police and plain-clothed men suddenly and unexpectedly opened fire on the protesters…Bernardo Mendez Vazquez has since passed away as a result of multiple injuries to the stomach, chest and leg.