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...Ledo, attended the event, and activists entered a reception after the show with the aim of urging him to sign a letter condemning the actions of his country’s leaders as well as the Oaxaca governor. The strife in Oaxaca erupted with a teachers’ strike this past May. The strikers and their allies accuse Governor Ulises Ruiz of corruption and want him to resign. The conflict turned violent on June 14, when police tried to evict the demonstrators from the city’s central plaza. At least eight others have died in the conflict, according...
...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...
...consider the novel’s ostensible climax: Santini must race to China in a supersonic jet-plane in order to halt a misguided preemptive strike on North Korea that could result in World War III. But before he arrives, we’re treated to 30 pages of refueling and bureaucratic bickering...
...political discomfort over the security cordon around Sadr City must have only intensified Monday, when the cordon failed to prevent a bomb blast at a crowded marketplace that killed dozens of Shi'ites in the area. The following day, Sadr brought Sadr City to a standstill through a general strike. A day later Maliki ordered the Americans to lift the security cordon...
...reality, Maliki has no good options. The U.S. wants him to do more in pursuit of national reconciliation, tackling the sectarian militias that strike fear into Sunni communities and offering amnesty to Sunni insurgent fighters. But many Shi'ite leaders see the U.S. demands as signs that Washington has tilted in favor of the Sunnis. Mindful of Shi'ite objections, Maliki is moving slowly, and that is deepening the alienation of even those Sunnis closest to the political process. Tariq al-Hashimi, the Sunni Vice President of Iraq, for example, condemned Maliki's intervention to lift the security cordon around...