[news] Repression on the Menu in Mexico

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

...(R)epression is right at the top of (Mexican President Felipe) Calderon's menu as evidenced by his cabinet appointees, many of them like him chosen from the right wing of the rightist (PAN) party. The new interior secretary...Ramirez Acuna was notorious for ordering the brutal repression of an anti-globalization demonstration during a Latin American-European Union summit in Guadalajara in May 2004 in which a hundred protestors were jailed and beaten, tortured for days by state police and thrown into Jalisco's maximum lock-ups for months...

  


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