Pánfilo Hernández, teacher and leader of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), was assassinated at 9:45 last night in Oaxaca City by gunmen who were traveling in a blue Tsuru automobile.

Hernández died when the APPO group he was traveling with in a private car after finishing an assembly in the Jardín neighborhood, was fired upon.

This is the ninth homicide committed against members of the Popular Assembly since they began demanding the removal of Governor Ulises Ruiz.

More information available in the expanded Spanish version of this article, English translation to follow later today.