Word: appo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presidential election. "We've been held hostage here by radical groups," Freddy Alcantar, a Oaxaca hotelier told TIME by phone Saturday morning. "Finally the President is imposing the rule of law." But a protester who called himself only Florentino, representing the leftist Popular Assemby of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), told TIME that until Governor Ulises Ruiz resigns, he and other militants - who are believed by many to have the backing of a small-scale Oaxaca guerrilla force from the 1990s that reappeared in the summer - would "reinforce our barricades and call in help from the mountains, valleys and coasts...