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.
I have to believe Tony Garza. He knows what is going on in Oaxaca. There is no doubt that the shooters were probably the Mexican police. Garza has warned Americans many times about going to Mexico. Like I said V. Fox should have taken care of this last spring.
The leftest PRI party and the leftest PAN party are converging. Let me assure you that all the political parties are way left in Mexico and this includes the PRD party.
The red shirts are anarchists. This is not a Mexican revolution.