From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:03:53 -0700 To: "Rad Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [R-G] Mexico: pre-WTO protest Reuters. 31 August 2001. Women Police Keep Mexican Trade Protest Peaceful. MEXICO CITY -- Women riot police on Friday confronted only peaceful demonstrators, 15 of them on horseback, as ministers from 17 rich and poor nations met in Mexico ahead of November world trade talks. About 100 policewomen were deployed to discourage protesters from rioting in Mexico City's ritzy Polanco neighborhood, where talks were being held in the Hotel Intercontinental. "We're using women because we need to tone down our show of strength,'' said Gabriel Mendoza Jimenez, in charge of the police cordon that closed streets around the talks. He said 200 riot police were on hand. About 60 demonstrators, carrying placards with such slogans as "The solution is revolution," gathered to demonstrate against the meetings and globalization overall. Fifteen protesters from a Mexican bank-debtors group called El Barzon rode in front of the police cordon on horses dressed in traditional Mexican "charro," or cowboy, tackle. Protesters were coordinated by the Mexican Network for Action Against Free Trade, an anti-free trade umbrella group. The informal talks in Mexico City are a prelude to meetings of the World Trade Organization in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 9-13. Trade ministers from the 17 developed and developing nations and the European Union hope to reach some agreements on the agenda at Doha. Protesters complained the two days of meetings were designed to reach preliminary agreements that would later be pushed through. ------------------------------------------- Macdonald Stainsby Rad-Green List: Radical anti-capitalist environmental discussion. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/rad-green ---- Leninist-International: Building bridges in the tradition of V.I. Lenin. http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ---- In the contradiction lies the hope. --Bertholt Brecht _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
