3 Brigade specifically threatened to cut off Progresa and Procampo federal aid programs administered by the state. Progresa covers health and family planning. The men say there was no follow-up treatment. But now I think the government is doing this because it wants to annihilate Indians. We don't know how they got the names or why they wanted the information,'' he says.
Some men say they received a kilo of beans and a kilo of cornmeal for their vasectomies.
They say the government never kept any promises to pay them money. So the villagers believe what the doctors say,'' he explains. The Star couldn't locate No. 3 brigade members Dr. Ernesto Guzman, nurse Mayra Ramos and organizer, Rafael Almazon. State health officials refuse to say whether they are still working in Guerrero. However, the three denied in a joint interview with the human rights commission to having duped people.