Two Chilean Students Murdered in Florida Hate Crime

8:16 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| Miami

28 Feb 2009

On Thursday night the Chilean National News was reporting that two students from Chile had been shot and killed, and three others wounded. I was watching the Chilean news with my Chilean ex and right away my mouth said what my gut felt. Was this another hate crime?

Turns out that the deaths of Nicolas Pablo Corp-Torres age 23 and Racine Balbontin-Aragondona, age 22, and the critical wounding of three — Fransisco Javier Cofre-Fernande, age 25, in critical condition; Sebastian Mauricio Arizaga-Suarez, age 27 and David Alonzo Bilbao-Meza, age 21, was motivated by hatred of immigrants.

The accused killer, Dannie Roy Baker, is a self-proclaimed minister who apparently was moved by Republican hate speech against immigrants (read Latinos).

Neighbor Crystal Lynn says “he did come up to me one time and asked me if I was ready for the revolution to begin and if I had any immigrant in my house to get them out.

While some are questioning the sanity of Baker, what is clear is that he was sane enough to use hatred towards immigrants as an excuse for his disgusting crime. In a country that despite it’s new president, is still conducting raids on working immigrants, regardless of status, it’s no wonder that crazy or not, scapegoating the economic troubles of the U.S. on immigrants (read Latinos) is acceptable. Just read some of the comments on other sites responding to the crime (hate comments will be deleted here).

Via / Latina Lista y Immigration Talk With a Mexican American

Tags: hate crimes against latinos, Immigration

6 Responses to Two Chilean Students Murdered in Florida Hate Crime

Andres Reidel

February 28th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

In many places around the world there are immigrants, in this case just students. USA is a nation that accepts people of all around the world, is known that USA is a country of freedom. That freedom is the one that caused the death of 2 students, 2 young guys that wanted to see what’s the American dream all about. I believe that USA will need to have a better approach to the management of weapons. I live in New Zealand, being a chilean as well…. I have always wonder why we listen often enough about the crazyness of some people at USA… what’s going wrong there, is there an issue with values?, with moral?. Remember the students killed on previous years at Virginia…. weapons, weapons…. I hope that Obama, as the first black president for USA, will open the eyes of people that can’t accept the fact that we live in a global world and stop with racism. We are all human beings, God gave us brains, we are not animals. Parents should give lots of love to their children… this sort of behavior is usually related to a lack of love and when I mean love is not just to say so… more to put it on practice every day of our lives… the best we can do on life is to share our love with our children and to teach them respect and deep strong values that will remain for life. My feelings are with the chileans but furthermore with the americans as you need to find clues on life… as that lady neighbour of Baker… she should have let someone know about the crossed mind of the killer.
I like America I just went there last month, it’s a lovely country, it is really huge, but as big it is hopefully something bigger grow further. Cheers

bill

March 1st, 2009 at 10:34 pm

it’s funny; you claim to be so much against hate crimes, but you never denounced Synagogues in Chicago, San Fransisco or Caracas were attacked; nothing at all; not one peep of protest

Maegan La Mala

March 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 am

Correction bill, I wrote about the attack on the Synagogue in Caracas and denounced it. If you wanted me to blame Chavez, well then look for another blog.

Pero do you have anything to say about the hate crime written about in this post?