[news] Pistol Politics: State Denial and Repression in Oaxaca

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Throughout the past week gunmen have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) killing four and wounding at least 10...Organizations and citizens across Oaxaca formed the APPO shortly after the (state) governor...failed June 14 (on a) raid on a teachers’ encampment in downtown Oaxaca City. The teachers had been camping out, on strike, since May 22...The response of...the state government has been...to arbitrarily and illegally detain APPO leaders, and—apparently—to send thugs and gunmen to terrify and break up the APPO protests.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/9425