[news] Surrounded by 800 Heavily Armed Police Agents, San Blas Atempa, Oaxaca, Refuses to Surrender

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

MARCH 2, 2006: The town of San Blas is under siege, surrounded by 800 state troopers and other heavily-armed police who invaded the Popular Autonomous City Hall here at three o’clock on Wednesday morning.

[On] New Years Day in 2005 [...] the townspeople — tired of the simulation of democracy imposed upon them by a local political boss that is backed by a repressive state government — took the City Hall [...]

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