Thank you for posting. This is getting absolutely no coverage here in the US.
Who are the guys in the red shirts? Or was it just a random fashion choice?
Also, where's the army and the government of Mexico?
"Thank you for posting. This is getting absolutely no coverage here in the US.
Who are the guys in the red shirts? Or was it just a random fashion choice?
Also, where's the army and the government of Mexico?"
Why should the American press cover this? Where has V. Fox and Calderone been on this? The last I heard those 2 "conservatives" were still whinning about the fence. This is V. Fox's baby all the way. He should have stopped this way back in May or June. All they had to do was sit down and negociate a teachers contract. The last I heard V. Fox will wait til December before he does something. V. Fox has let some of the worst communists infiltrate a poor class of Mexicans. The commies wear red.
You can bet Ambassador Tony Garza knows that this was the Mexican police as he would have never made the statement inferring otherwise.
Try this site:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003327488_oaxaca28.html
excderpt....
Bradley Roland Will, 36, of New York, was shot in the abdomen and died at a Red Cross hospital, police, witnesses and friends said. Will worked for Indymedia.org, an independent Web-based media organization and also sold video footage on a freelance basis, said friends and Indymedia colleague Hinrich Schuleze.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said the armed group may have been police.
"It appears that Mr. Will was killed during a shootout between what may have been local police" and protesters, Garza said in a written statement.
Protesters accused the governor of sending the armed men against them.
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The red is the color of the PRI party in Mexico, the old party that ruled and ruined Mexico for 70 years. They are socialists, but not really ideologues - you occasionally find good people among them. They're just a great big amorphous party and down in Oaxaca, they were apparently defending their privileges against people to the farther left of them, like the Indymedia guy. Neither the PRI, nor the PRD nor the Zapatistas they were fighting are connected with the current party, PAN that is in power. The people they were fighting were all from the left and the far left. It was dinosaur left versus chavista left in this battle, left on left violence.
Which is probably why the msm is not interested in covering this.