Tuesday, August 15, 2006

On the Verge of Revolution?

Unlike the Americans, Mexicans aren't going to stand by while an election is stolen so obviously. Supporters of Obrador are turning to violence in Mexico City:

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Police in Mexico have erected steel barriers around the Congress building in the capital after fighting broke out with political demonstrators.

Protesters had gathered to challenge the result of the presidential election but this was the first time since protests began that violence erupted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4796689.stm

Mexico's problem isn't only the fraudulent election, but more and more communities are leaning more and more towards the way of the Zapatistas:

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OAXACA CITY, August 10, 2006: The government of Oaxaca has advised the public that it will arrest all the leaders of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) to “guarantee the safety” of the state, the Secretary of Public Security Lino Celaya Luria said yesterday.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2007.html

The APPO is a civilian organized government which has rejected the "official" Oaxaca government. The conflict began over a teacher's union strike for a budget increse for their schools. What's Mexico's government's response?

Quote:
José Jiménez Colmenares, a mechanic by profession married to teacher, was shot in the street while participating in a march organized by the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO, by its Spanish initials) on August 10. Two others were wounded. At the front of the march the empty wheel chair belonging to German Mendoza Nube –the Union of Poor Campesinos founder and APPO leader who was arrested on August 9– was pushed, with his photo on the back of the chair.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2009.html

Abducting someone out of their wheel chair...? This isn't even the beginning of the human rights abuses committed by the fascist Mexican government.

Lets not forget the rebellion in Atenco a few months ago and the Zapatista rebellion years ago. It's only a matter of time until Mexico turns into a all-out revolution.

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