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APPO is now evacuating offices of the Oaxacan State Government in anticipation of being thrown out by the federales.

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APPO evacuates offices of the PGJE in Oaxaca

In spite of the rejection of the ultimatum issued by the federal government to hand over the Oaxacan historic center, the organization forsees abandoning other public buildings in the next hours

Jorge Octavio Ochoa & Alejandro Torres/Correspondents
El Universal (Mexico City)
Oaxaca City, Oaxaca
Saturday 28 October 2006

8:38 p.m. The offices of the General Procurator of Justice of the State [of Oaxaca] located on San Antonio de la Cal, where yesterday a shootout was recorded with more than half a dozen wounded, were released around 7:30 p.m. by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), and over the next few hours it forsees carrying out an evacuation of other public buildings taken by said organization going back more than three months.

The preliminary report was made known by employees of said office [i.e. the PGJE] and later confirmed by Radio Universidad, the only broadcast with which APPO counts upon to coordinate calls to the population to "maintain calm" facing a possible intervention of federal police forces in this state.

Some areas of the city were found free of barricades, nevertheless on the periphery some vehicles and public service autobuses still remain crossed in important crossings such as that of the Morelos Rotunda, where the Periferico, Calzada de la Republica, Morelos, and Camino Nacional Avenues converge.

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So; maybe APPO is just retreating to "defensible lines" within the city's center or perhaps they are throwing the feds a bone to keep them happy. I don't know, but there you have it.