Aguas Blancas massacre
Members of the Organización Campesina de la Sierra Sur (South Mountain Range Farmer Organization) were en route to Atoyac de Álvarez to attend a protest march demanding the release of Gilberto Romero Vázquez, a peasant activist arrested more than a month before (and who has never appeared since).One of the results of this incident was the creation of the Popular Revolutionary Army, a leftist guerrilla organization.Allegedly, the Guerrero secretary of government, José Rubén Robles Catalán, and Gustavo Olea Godoy, head of the state police, were waiting in a helicopter some meters away, and took off when the first shot was fired.[1] Governor of Guerrero Rubén Figueroa Alcocer had previously had a conversation with María de la Luz Núñez Ramos, the municipal president of Atoyac de Álvarez, saying measures had been taken so that the group would not reach Atoyac and that they would stop them by whatever means necessary.[1] In spite of his initial defense of the police's actions, Figueroa Alcocer ended up resigning as governor of Guerrero on 12 March 1996.