Posted on 10/27/2006 3:29:11 PM PDT by StJacques
Blockades Suffocate Oaxaca They are provoking chaos and bottlenecks all over the city, by the closure of streets and main highways which APPO began this morning Jorge Octavio Ochoa/Correspondent 12:55 p.m. Absolute chaos and bottlenecks throughout the city were occasioned by the blockade of streets and main highways which the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) began this morning. The main international highway 190 has been closed since the earliest hours today as well as the Las Riveras de Atoyac highways, which were the only alternatives for highway connections between this state and Mexico City. As such, communication with the capital of the Republic will be left suspended until Saturday morning. Facing the lack of access by way of streets and avenues of the city, the few passenger transport autobuses which remain working had to change their routes and no one knows which one to take to direct themselves to their destination. The principal blockaded intersections are Periferico and Simbolos Patrios, Camino Nacional, Cinco Señores, together with the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, on the outskirts of the state Procurator of Justice [building] and facing the government house. In as much, the main highway blockades are found on the connections of the Oaxaca-Puerto Angel and Mexico-Oaxaca highways, at the upper level of the Brenamiel and Oaxaca-Istmo highway, where for a short time only a few vehicles were permitted to pass through.
El Universal (Mexico City)
Oaxaca City, Oaxaca
Friday 27 October 2006
Is the APPO calling this a "peaceful protest". Guerrilla antics. Just like RUCKUS.
At 3pm, McDonalds and Burger King were taken hostage and closed. We all fiddle while our Rome is burning. No one wants to use force and stop the mob.
Are you in an area being affected by the APPO?
Bump
Do you think the good citizens of Mexico have the will to fight their aggressors -- Obradore's people?
Let me add that many of us here do NOT believe that the good people of mexico will do squat.
Friends from Monterrey came to Central Mexico and said when the ACT-UP crowd tried to shut down freeways and highways, that the citizens of Monterrey rose up as a lion and the protestors cowered in fear of the people. In Southern Mexico, people have been taught that the gov't does everything for the citizens, brings them water, scholarships, roofs, police protection, so no one even considers that they might start to think about defending themselves. Today a foreign reporter was shot dead. I see nothing on the MSM of the USA reporting this melt down.
Only the state of Oaxaca seems to be affected, and most of this in the Capitol city. Teachers months before staged a protest, police tried to disburse the strike with tear gas cannisters, and APPO felt it's right to a legal strike and protest were being threatened and circled their wagons for a fight.
What is the Mexican government doing right now? Just hoping the rebellion will blow over?
The only thing our MSM seems to be reporting is the Mexican government's heartburn over the 700 mile fence.
Here is one article that was posted tonight:
Mexico: An American cameraman and a teacher killed in Oaxaca
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1727389/posts
Thanks for posting; reporting. Very interesting.
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