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...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...protests began more than five months ago as a local teachers' strike, but, as Mexico itself tries to recover from a divisive national election, other elements joined in to expand the protest in Oaxaca to include other leftist causes, including the rights of indigenous peoples, anti-globalism and anti-Americanism. The burgeoning ranks of the protesters occupied Oaxaca's Zocalo, the city's main square, and the Governor's palace until President Vicente Fox sent in the Federal Police to clear the area. Currently, talks in both Mexico City and Oaxaca are at an impasse. But the protesters have...
...Tuesday Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, who lost the Presidential election by the narrowest of margins, headed a march in solidarity with the Oaxaca protesters in the capital, Mexico City. He joined the protesters in demanding the resignation of the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, who has taken a hard line against the protesters. Meanwhile, teachers' unions in other states in Mexico have thrown their support to the Oaxaca teachers. Mexico's President-elect Felipe Calder?n, who belongs to Fox's PAN party and takes office in December, has not openly embraced the embattled governor (whose party is allied with...
...anti-Ruiz forces are now spearheaded by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), a leftist coalition that may include a small-scale guerrilla force. They have taken possession of the Benito Ju?rez University, where they continue to send messages through its radio station, Radio Universitaria, giving orders and calling for a "red alert" against the federal forces. The university is barricaded against the police, and according to witness and intelligence sources in Mexico City, the occupiers are accumulating Molotov cocktails and hand-made PVC rockets...
...down the violence and restore peaceful dialogue. "We have to get our institutions working together again for real economic development and real jobs," Alcantar conceded, reflecting on the root causes of the conflict. As Calderon gets set to take office December 1, that's the challenge not only for Oaxaca, but for all of Mexico...