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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:59:24 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: more details on oaxaca This from a Mexican friend and activist who lives in Oaxaca - Monty Dear friends: What we feared, for you and for all of us, unfortunately happened. At least, you were not directly exposed to this horror... Our beautiful plaza, that you could not fully appreciate because of the tents, looked this morning like a Bagdad corner. The body count started. Several women and children died. Many teachers were detained or dissapeared. Provocateurs of the government destroyed shops, banks, etc., in order to justify the brutality of the police -which, for example, broke the windows of all the cars parked near the plaza to take them off... There is a kind of popular revolt. Ten municipal governments (some of them of the most important cities of Oaxaca, like Juchita'n, Tuxtepec and Huajuapan) had been taken by the people. The tension mounts to dangerous levels. When a military regiment came to the plaza of Tuxtepec to "help", the people destroyed their barracks. In the main plaza of Oaxaca, recovered after the first skirmishes (with helicopters throwing bombs with gases, etc.), the teachers took from the police their clubs and expelled them... The police destroyed the free radio operated by the teachers union. The students of the university, in response, occupied the University radio... The local media, controlled by the governor, transmitted messages from him denying everything: nothing was happening in Oaxaca, the government was in full control of the situation... In the afternoon, it was announced that the army and the federal police were being transported to the city by planes and buses. People from Atenco and many other places are also coming. This morning we are in a kind of truce: the governor and the teachers leaders are negotiating in the office of the Minister of the Interior. Every kind of march is announced for today and tomorrow. We are prepared for the worst...but still hoping for the best: impeachment of our barbaric governor (something particularly difficult at this juncture). Muchos abrazos, G. -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 (or chiapas95-lite, or chiapas95-english, or chiapas95-espanol) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html or gopher to Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, Mailing Lists.
