Three rice cultivators are dead following an incident that evoked the Wild West and that centered around the water rights for crops. The three deceased men, Fausto Cruz, Manuel Emilio Bautista and Braulio Valdeyaque, drew their weapons and shot at each other, as they argued over the water that passes over their lands, all sown with a new rice crop. Late last evening the three corpses were still lying by the roadside on the highway that connects Villa Vasquez and Monte Cristi. Cruz and Valdeyaque were shot in the head with shotgun pellets and Bautista was shot with a handgun. This is just the latest incident in the wave of violence that has shaken the country over the past weeks.