{"id":1618,"date":"2015-12-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2015-12-10T22:36:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:36:02","slug":"parcel-bombs-gmo-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/12\/parcel-bombs-gmo-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists send parcel bombs to GMO advocates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/12\/11\/parcel-bombs-gmo-advocates\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2015\/12\/Alianza-Pro-Transg\u00e9nicos.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In September the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/alianzaprotransgenicos.org\/\">Alianza Pro Transg\u00e9nicos<\/a><\/em> (APT\u2014Pro GMO Alliance) was created in Mexico; it seeks to promote research and development of GMO seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Not even a month after that, the president and vice president of the APT received <a href=\"http:\/\/eleconomista.com.mx\/industrias\/2015\/12\/08\/alianza-protransgenicos-denuncia-ataques\">a parcel bomb each<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The aim of these attacks, which wounded the vice president, <strong>Mario Vald\u00e9s Berlanga<\/strong>, was to intimidate the movement that promotes the release of permits of Genetically Modified Organisms crops as a solution to the Mexican countryside&#8221;, said the president <b>Rub\u00e9n Ch\u00e1vez Villagr\u00e1n<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference, they stated that on Thursday November 19, Eng. Mario Vald\u00e9s Berlanga, corn producer and <strong>vice president of APT, and an assistant were injured when opening a parcel bomb sent to the former<\/strong>. &#8220;Fortunately, the two wounded and two others who were in the same room where the device was opened are safe and in good health&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>second parcel bomb was received on November 20, addressed to Eng. Rub\u00e9n Ch\u00e1vez Villagr\u00e1n, president of <em>Alianza Pro Transg\u00e9nicos<\/em><\/strong>. This package was not opened and was instead delivered to the competent authorities along with a criminal complaint against those responsible for these criminal acts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The group <em>Por la Anarqu\u00eda<\/em> (For Anarchy) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lahaine.org\/mm_ss_mundo.php\/acciones-contra-alianza-pro-transgenicos\">claimed responsibility for the attacks<\/a> in a patchwork quilt that echoes profoundly ignorant and terribly unscientific memes \u2014 I wish these people could have access to a proper education.<\/p>\n<p>It is also not surprising. Spanish scientist <strong>JM Mulet<\/strong> already dealt with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/05\/12\/jm-mulet-argentina\/\">death threats in Argentina<\/a><\/strong> earlier this year and it is only a matter of time before someone ends up dead. We know fundamentalists <strong>try to impose through violence because reasoning too hard for them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siquierotransgenicos.cl\/2015\/12\/09\/nuevo-atentado-de-activistas-anti-ogms-alianza-pro-transgenicos-de-mexico-sufre-ataque-explosivo\/\">S\u00ed Quiero Transg\u00e9nicos<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group &#8216;Por la Anarqu\u00eda&#8217; claimed responsibility for the attacks in a patchwork quilt that echoes profoundly ignorant and terribly unscientific memes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,291],"tags":[11,89,17,266],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-gmos","tag-mexico","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}