Gunment Kill Union Leader in Mexico

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/americas/01mexico.html

MEXICO CITY — Gunmen ambushed a peasant union leader and his family in northern Mexico, killing him and 14 others in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a hit by drug cartels but one that his organization said might have been related to his union work.

The victims, who included four children, were leaving a ranch in the northern state of Sonora on Friday afternoon when the gunmen opened fire with AK-47s on a convoy of three trucks, according to one of the three survivors, the state police said.