"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
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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 press should cover it for the simple fact that Mexico is a bordering country and any unrest of this magnitude in Mexico is at least as important as riots in, say, Africa.
I asked about the people in red because at first, I assumed naturally that they were communists; however, the reports made it seem as if the people firing were opposed to the communists, so I wasn't sure who the "men in red" were. Furthermore, they appear to be in charge; in the back of one photo, you will see one of them, better dressed than the mob, watching the attacks.
The police are supposedly confined to their barracks, which I really don't understand. What is the purpose of a police force except to keep order? Partly, of course, it is because the police force there is seen as an arm of the PRI (Socialist party, basically) which is oddly enough the one being confronted by the even more leftist party. But I think it is also cowardice on the part of the governing authorities at all levels, who are so afraid of being depicted as authoritarian that they won't use the police or the army to put down what is essentially an attempt to intimidate the people and seize power in one of their states.
I think Fox - who is not PRI, but has been a disappointment on many levels, and not just to the US - wants to pass this along to his successor. But I can't believe Mexico can take another full month of this.