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Sorry for multiple pings here, but there is conflicting news now being posted on the El Universal web site, which may render the article beginning this thread "non-informative.

At: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/382821.html

El Universal is now reporting that Section 22 is going to conduct a second vote on Monday and Tuesday. Some of this appears to be in response to threats of violence from APPO. I'm going to quote an excerpted translation:

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The consultation in the teacher's union aborted late after some 14 hours of uninterrupted debate, the assembly of Secton 22 of the SNTE determined to reject the result of the consultation carried out last Thursday and Friday and decided to summon a new consultation for the days of Monday and Tuesday and whose results will be made known Thursday. . .

In fact, on the outskirts of the building, a group of masked young men, armed with sticks and machetes, were preparing molotov bombs [i.e. "cocktails"] amid shouts of 'Rueda you moocher, how much was your ticket?' and 'the consultation, the consultation it's a hidden plot.'

The two accesses to the union building were blocked by the settled members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca, while people shouted 'little bastards, we're going to tear out your ears'. . .
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So it seems that APPO's threats of violence may be mor

Ping to my #6 above.

I wasn't finished writing it and I meant to click "Preview" and clicked "Post" instead. I wanted to finish by saying that "it seems APPO's threats of violence may be more than just talk. And I wanted to ping you all on the post as well.

Well, agreed to that also. What the left can't achieve through the ballot box it achieves through the courts. What it can't achieve through the courts, it achieves through violence.