Oaxaca bracing for Mexican military attack

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Oaxaca bracing for Mexican military attack

Postby Gouda » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:47 pm

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The People in Oaxaca Need Your Assisstance</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://xicanopwr.blogspot.com/2006/10/people-in-oaxaca-need-your-assisstance.html">xicanopwr.blogspot.com/20...tance.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>More military flights over Oaxaca City</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/1/153447/243">narcosphere.narconews.com...153447/243</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Preparations for War in Oaxaca</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2105.html">www.narconews.com/Issue43...e2105.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Abductions in Oaxaca</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Law Student and Possibly Two Others Reported Snatched from the Streets by Plainclothes Thugs<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/10/3/92537/7759">narcosphere.narconews.com...92537/7759</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> Mexico official: Force last resort in Oaxaca unrest</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/09/28/mexico.oaxaca.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>OAXACA, Mexico (AP) -- The federal government would consider using "measured" force only as a last resort to end four months of unrest in the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal said in comments published Thursday.<br><br>The government will use force "only when all political means have been exhausted," Abascal said in the interview with the daily newspaper El Universal. "The use of public force is not a whim."<br><br>Any federal action would be "measured and with limits," he added.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Banks attacked in restive Mexican city</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/02/oaxaca.ap/index.html">edition.cnn.com/2006/WORL...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The attacks on the banks by the previously unknown group called the Armed Revolutionary Organization for the People of Oaxaca follow months of violence in Oaxaca city, where protesters have set up street barricades and taken the city center...Protesters and news media speculated that federal forces were planning to retake the city after navy helicopters flew over the area during the weekend. But Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal insisted the helicopters and military planes were on routine supply runs that had nothing to do with the more than four months of unrest.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> Armed Revolutionary Organization for the People of Oaxaca? Hmmm. <p></p><i></i>
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