The Mexican Governmental Secretariat (Segob) has summoned APPO and the teacher's union to a Friday meeting at which they will present proposals for a solution to the conflict in Oaxaca. Here is the story.
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Segob will present solutions to the crisis in Oaxaca to APPO
The federal dependency summons the teachers to a meeting for this Friday at 11:00 a.m.
Juan Arvizu
El Universal
Mexico City
Thursday 28 September 2006
3:57 p.m. The Governmental Secretary summoned APPO and Section 22 of the SNTE [teacher's union] to a meeting this Friday in Mexico City, with the end of presenting a series of solution proposals to the Oaxacan conflict, which brings together their dialogue with other sectors of society, Undersecretary Arturo Chavez Chavez announced.
"Over the past days we have had intense conversations with other sectors of Oaxacan society," who of late desire the return of normality, and who have proposals which will be put to the consideration of APPO and Section 22 [of the teacher's union], said Chavez Chavez, Undersecretary of Government of the Governmental Secretariat.
Right up to 2:00 p.m., on a day in which the tension has grown over an eventual intervention of public force in the city of Oaxaca, the governmental functionary declared that in Bucareli they are working intensely to put "negotiated exits" to the conflict on the table.
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During the past few days, in which the directors of APPO and Section 22 withdrew from the governmental dialogue table, the functionaries of the dependency [i.e. Segob] continued their contacts with social directors, businessmen, religious leaders, as with the principal persons of the political class of the state.
Chavez Chavez said that he counts a range of possible ways of solution, which will themselves be presented to the unsatisfied who insist upon the exit of Ulises Ruiz from the governorship of the state.
The two organizations were summoned through their leaders Flavio Sosa, from APPO, and Enrique Rueda, from Section 22.
The meeting will take place in the Revolution salon of the Governmental Secretariat, at 11:00 a.m. this Friday, and the federal government team will be headed by Secretary Carlos Abascal Carranza.
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And in the meantime, APPO is fortifying the barricades in Oaxaca City, evidently expecting a showdown.
