One more detail creates even more suspicion. This family was on its way to meet with the new Archbishop of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Archbishop Arizmendi. This is the same Archbishop the government thought would take the PRIista side. But as it turns out he is in favor of peace and helping the indigenous people of the highlands. With this information we can only assume it was a politically motivated massacre of a family in order to strip it of its land rights.
Capitalism is the culprit here.
The troops here work for our government not the mexican government. Trained some of them at the School of the Americas and receiving over the last ten years 1 billion dollars in the form of military credits, the stakes are high. And if the indigenous people of Chiapas won't give up their land, our government and its Mexican puppet regime will just kill them so their land rights will revert back to the state and then go on the auction block to the highest bidder. There is one other glaring issue which must be touched upon here. In the Mexican constitution there are several things, first it calls for a separation of Church and State.