Begin forwarded message:
From: "David B. Briones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 15, 2008 9:49:00 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [narconews] Berger: Video Report: Mexican Army Attacks
Civilians in the Indigenous Town of Xoxocotla
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
October 15, 2008
Please Distribute Widely
Dear Colleague,
Ever since the passage of the US-spending bill, The Merida Initiative
(better knows as “Plan Mexico”), Mexican President Felipe Calderón has
increasingly mobilized the Army to repress social movements. Narco
News has documented this growing wave of abuses – in Chiapas, in
Atenco, in Oaxaca and elsewhere – and now an emboldened and violent
government has turned its guns, tanks and helicopters on unions and
community organizations in Morelos.
Last week, Indigenous residents of Xoxocotla, Morelos raised
roadblocks in solidarity with a teacher strike that is approaching its
second month:
Greg Berger reports:
“The teachers of Morelos and the townspeople of Xoxocotla are united
in a common struggle to stop the rapid privatization of public
resources. Teachers on strike in Morelos are trying to halt a new set
of educational reforms they say would open the doors to the
participation of private capital in the public education system.
Xoxocotla, on the other hand, is desperately trying to save the
aquifer which feeds its municipal water system from being sucked dry
from private condominium developers who skirt local zoning laws.
“…Later that night, between 500 and 1000 members of the Mexican Army
from the 24th Military Zone barracks in Cuernavaca were given the
order from the National Defense Secretary to assist police in their
efforts to dislodge protesters in Xoxocotla. Accompanying these
soldiers was a vast mobile arsenal, including humvees, tanks, and
helicopters. It is important to note that such use of force can only
take place under authorization from the executive branch of the
Federal government.”
“…Demonstrating the short-sighted nature of the government's strategy,
another woman whose brother is among the missing echoed a sentiment I
heard many times. ‘Before today many of us didn't even support the
teachers' strike. But now we are all with them.’”
Read the entirety of Berger’s report, along with a corresponding
video report, online at Narco News:
http://www.narconews.com
From somewhere in a country called América,
David B. Briones
Webmaster
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
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