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Oaxaca: federale politie verlaat centrum
Carla - 19.12.2006 02:34
Het lijkt erop alsof in Oaxaca de federale politie zich terug trekt en de gemeente en provinciale politie het overneemt.
Hieronder een artikel uit Prensa Latina,  http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={0CEAF0A5-192E-4ACC-B128-6311664CAE43}&language=EN
Police Forces Keep Withdrawing from Oaxaca
Mexico, Dec 17 (Prensa Latina) Federal Preventative Police continues withdrawing from the capital city of the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Sunday, after a month of occupation and two strong and violent clashes with members of the social movement.
The streets of Oaxaca city were sealed off by municipal, state, auxiliary, industrial, and commercial police agents, who placed metallic fences in each of the street corners.
Meanwhile, members of the state ministerial police, some armed with riffles, patrol the streets of Oaxaca City, but a top ranking official has admitted that they were already a hindrance for the population.
Local authorities said that the withdrawal of the public police force from Oaxaca city is aimed at giving some peace to the population, action that has been violated by Ulises Ruiz, to whom have been demanded to resign his post as governor.
The spokesman of the Oaxaca Peoples Popular Assembly, Florentino Lopez, ruled out the withdrawal of the Federal Preventative Police, since a state of emergency and the repression against the population are still kept.
Lopez said that protests will continue until Ruiz resigns his post, all political prisoners be released and occupation forces withdraws from Oaxaca city.
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| Read more about: anti-fascisme / racisme globalisering Oaxaca vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten | | supplements | | 43 mensen vrijgelaten | Carla - 19.12.2006 02:39
Op http://cml.vientos.info/node/7325 staat een lijst van 43 mensen 16 december vrijgelaten zijn. Ze zijn gearresteerd in Oaxaca en nu in Nayarit, de gevangenis waar ze allemaal heen zijn gebracht, vrij gelaten zijn.
| | Vrouwenmars op zondag in Oaxaca | Carla - 19.12.2006 02:42
En er zijn nog steeds demonstraties in Oaxaca.
Gisteren, zondag 17 december, was er weer een.
Foto's kan je vinden op: http://www.flickr.com/photos/46538313@N00/
| | Vrouwendemonstratie | Carla - 19.12.2006 02:50
Net even wat meer informatie.
Meer dan 2000 vrouwen demonstreerden in Oaxaca om vrijlating van de gevangenen te eisen. Zij ontvingen tegelijkertijd de 43 net vrijgelaten gevangenen, die in 2 bussen vanuit Tepic, Nayarit kwamen. Meer dan 150 mensen zitten nog steeds vast.
http://elenemigocomun.net/
| | Mexican federal police leave Oaxaca City | Carla - 19.12.2006 03:06
wel vreemd dat er niets over te vinden is op indymedia sites....
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/17/america/LA_GEN_Mexico_Oaxaca_Unrest.php
Mexican federal police leave Oaxaca City center in sign conflict is ending
The Associated Press
Published: December 16, 2006
OAXACA, Mexico: Federal police pulled out of the central square of Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Oaxaca, ending a seven-week occupation that restored order but angered many residents.
The withdrawal Saturday was another sign that six months of protests and street violence that killed nine people, scared away tourists and shattered the historic southern city's economy is ending.
On Saturday, the officers in black body armor packed away tents and sleeping mats and began marching out of the square before dawn, leaving state and city police to keep order.
Lino Celaya, Oaxaca's secretary of citizen protection, said about 2,000 federal police will remain in a military base outside the city in case trouble flares up again.
The protesters, a broad front of leftists, trade unionists and Indian groups, had taken over the center of Oaxaca for five months until more than 4,000 federal police armed with water canons and helicopters drove them off in October and November.
Many residents complained the presence of armored police and equipment cast a dark shadow over the colonial square and was akin to a military occupation.
However, some business owners fear there could be more violence after the police leave.
"What are we going to do without them?" asked Juanita Fosado, owner of a clothing store. "The protesters will come back to burn our businesses."
Federal police clashed with protesters throughout November, arresting more than 200 and pushing them out of all their city bases. Protest leader Flavio Sosa was also arrested, taking the sting out of the movement to oust Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
Human rights groups have asked U.N. officials to intervene on behalf of the arrested protesters, alleging they have been tortured and sexually abused in prisons hundreds of miles (kilometers) away.
On Saturday, federal authorities released 42 of the prisoners because there was a lack of evidence against them, according to protest spokesman Jesus Lopez and a federal official who asked not be identified because she was not authorized to speak on the record.
Most of the nine victims of the Oaxaca violence were protesters shot by armed gangs. Activists accuse local police of being behind the killings, and protesters complain that President Felipe Calderon's administration has failed to bring them to justice.
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