Mexico Theater
Oaxaca: McDonalds fire-bombed
From AP, Nov. 12 (links added):
OAXACA, Mexico -- Four youths wearing masks tossed gasoline bombs at a McDonald's restaurant in the conflict-torn city of Oaxaca on Sunday, damaging the windows, seats and play area, police said.
EPR guerillas behind Mexico City police lynching?
From El Universal, Nov. 10 via Chiapas95:
One of the most horrific crimes in recent Mexico City history - the 2004 beating and burning to death of two federal police officers by a mob of residents in the Tlahuac district - may have been planned by the People's Revolutionary Army guerrilla group, the top Federal District law enforcement official said Thursday.
Oaxaca: Ruiz and APPO both reconsider strategy
From El Universal, Nov. 12 via Chiapas95:
As APPO deliberates, Ruiz to alter Cabinet
The Oaxaca People's Assembly (APPO) resumed their organizational congress on Saturday in Oaxaca City, while the state's embattled governor announced the beginning of a massive Cabinet overhaul in hopes of preserving his job.
Oaxaca: APPO's Flavio Sosa speaks
From the Associated Press, Nov. 9:
Wanted Mexican leftist says Oaxaca rebellion will spread
OAXACA, Mexico — Flavio Sosa is remarkably relaxed for a wanted man.As the most visible leader of a leftist movement that has rattled the Vicente Fox administration, chased state police out of this southern Mexican city and challenged hundreds of federal troops — Sosa faces arrest warrants on riot and conspiracy charges.
Torture in Oaxaca; Amnesty demands info on detained
Amnesty International has officially called upon the Mexican government to release the names of those detained by federal police in Oaxaca, and the charges they face. The arrested now number above 80. Many are being held incommunicado and there are growing reports of human rights abuses. (El Universal, Nov. 7)
Oaxaca: siege continues; solidarity builds across Mexico
There have now been 84 "arbitrary detentions" by the Mexican federal police in Oaxaca, according to the Miguel Augustin Pro-Juarez Human Rights Center (PRODH), which has dispatched a team of investigators to the besieged city. The group also reports 59 "disappearances," in which the whereabouts of the detained is unknown, since the city was occupied by 4,000 Federal Preventative Police on Oct. 29. (La Jornada, Nov. 5)
Bombs rock Mexico City
Bombs exploded at three high-profile targets in Mexico City early on the morning of Nov. 6, causing property damage but no injuries. A door was damaged and windows blown out at the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE), a body which had angered leftists in September for ruling that conservative candidate Felipe Calderon won July's disputed presidential race. Glass and ceiling panels covered the floor of an annex building at the headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), now embroiled in a bitter conflict in the state of Oaxaca. An explosion also tore apart the metal and glass facade of a branch of Canada's Scotiabank. A fourth bomb at another bank failed to detonate. (Reuters, Nov. 6)
Oaxaca: Brad Will's killers still at large?
From Reporters Without Borders, Nov. 3 via Chiapas95:
While noting that two of Indymedia cameraman Brad Will's alleged killers were arrested and taken before a judge yesterday in Oaxaca, Reporters Without Borders today condemned the shortcomings in the investigation into his fatal shooting and the fact that three others allegedly involved have been able to escape.

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