[news] Movement in Oaxaca Faces Threats and Gunfire as 300 Federal Police Arrive in the State Capital

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**Popular Assembly Blocks Oaxaca City Government Buildings and Repels Another Police Attack**

By Nancy Davies | Commentary from Oaxaca | August 9, 2006

The previous night, August 6, about 300 Federal Preventative Police (PFP) arrived in Oaxaca. Monday at 10:00 AM an attack by about thirty police who arrived in five pickup cars, some in civilian clothes and some wearing ski masks, took place in the Colonia Reforma neighborhood, where APPO people were blocking the office of the Department of Finance.

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