by isachar » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:52 pm
What they fail to say, though, is that ALL of the serious violence (approx 6-12 murders/deaths, kidnappings, attempted kidnapptings, shootings, assaults, truncheons, tear gas, etc.) in Oaxaca has been committed by the Government against the protesters. Bastards! Reuters is part of the phony fake news machine.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-09-20T024922Z_01_N19319727_RTRIDST_0_MEXICO-ELECTION.XML">today.reuters.com/news/ar...ECTION.XML</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>MEXICO CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon views violent disturbances in the tourist city of Oaxaca, where protesters are trying to oust the governor, as the country's biggest challenge, a top aide said on Tuesday.<br><br>Juan Camilo Mourino, the head of Calderon's transition team, said protests by leftists claiming fraud at the July election were less worrying because they were not violent, unlike the Oaxaca standoff.<br><br>"We see Oaxaca as the main problem facing the nation, without a doubt," Mourino told foreign journalists.<br><br>Five people have died in recent months as protesters try to force the resignation of Gov. Ulises Ruiz in Oaxaca, a pretty southern colonial city famous for its mezcal alcoholic drink and popular with tourists.<br><br><br><br>The trouble started with a teachers' strike but Indian groups and left-wing radicals have joined the protests.<br><br>Demonstrators, many from poor areas outside the city, have barricaded roads and burned buses, emptying the city of tourists.<br><br>In Mexico City, supporters of losing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador paralyzed downtown for almost seven weeks with a sit-in to draw attention to their claims of vote rigging at the election.<br><br>The sit-in, which ended last week, was peaceful. Other protests in favor of Lopez Obrador have also been free of violence. "The Oaxaca issue is different. There has been violence, there have been deaths and a clear challenge to authority," Mourino said.<br><br>He did not say how Calderon, who has promised a firm hand against crime, would solve the Oaxaca problem if it is still simmering when he takes office on Dec. 1.<br><br>President Vicente Fox's government is trying to mediate between striking teachers and the Oaxaca state government, run by the Institutional Revolutionary Party which governed Mexico for 71 years until Fox's election victory in 2000.<br><br>Critics say Ruiz has been heavy handed in his handling of the strike, sending riot police in to try to dislodge striking teachers from the city's main square. Protesters said off-duty police shot and killed one man.<br><br>---------------------------------------------------<br><br>Besides evidence of 'manufactured' news (after all wouldn't who is commiting the violence be absolutely relevant to this story), this story is also evidence of the coming crackdown.<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=isachar>isachar</A> at: 9/20/06 8:22 pm<br></i>