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". . . In the meantime, I believe it is urgent that all supporters of the teachers and popular movement in Oaxaca organize this coming week emergency protest actions in front of Mexican embassies and consulates to demand an end to the repression in Oaxaca and the arrest and punishment of all those responsible for the violence against the teachers and the APPO activists. . . ."

"Supporters of the teachers?" ...

The teachers voted to end their strike and return to classes.

"Popular movement in Oaxaca?"

Parents have begun taking over their local schools and sending machete-carrying APPO activists home without their shirts.

". . . demand an end to the repression in Oaxaca and the arrest and punishment of all those responsible for the violence against the teachers and the APPO activists. . . ."

And what about the APPO seizure of both privately and publicly-owned radio stations they have used for broadcasts? What about APPO's destruction of the privately-owned businesses in downtown Oaxaca whose proprietors were deemed opposed to their protest? What about the killing of two dissident SNTE union members for opposing the APPO protest? What about the harm done to thousands of poor Oaxacans who depend every year on the Guelaguetza folk festival for their biggest chunk of annual income who saw that money lost when APPO shut the festival down? What about the harm done to hundreds of thousands of children who have had their opportunity for a basic education stripped from them?

Friggin' leftist dribble! I'm sick of their lies!

Friggin' leftist dribble! I'm sick of their lies!

Agreed, but I felt it important to know what the Left is saying and putting out (maybe another reason to have a thread on all things south of the border).

In other news from Mexico:

No one care about Tijuana... No one seems to care about what is going on in Tijuana. It has become the most dangerous city in Mexico, if not the world. Between yesterday Thursday and today Friday five people have been kidnapped. Person who appear to have no relationship whatsoever with the drug trade, rather local businessmen. The federal government refuses to send the federal police, the Governor refuses to do anything about this, and the Mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rhon basically says that "Tijuana is as safe as San Diego" eventhought locals have identified more then 115 kidnappings this year alone and more then 400 families leaving the city in the last 18 months... Believe it or not Hank Rhon is planning to run for governor next year.... You know what? He may win....

For the story in Spanish--

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/editoriales/35755.html

Great picture!

The teachers were just a pawn in this; the left is famous for using "the people" and then crushing them on its ascent to power.

Regardless of whether Ruiz is a lousy governor or not, he is the elected governor and should stay in place until there is some legitimate legal process undertaken by the state and the government of Mexico for his removal. If the radical left wins in Oaxaca, they are going to be trying this in other states soon.

I am thinking that to some extent Fox held off because he may have regarded this as an internecine dispute between leftists and felt that the presence of federal authorities would complicate the issue. But it seems to me that the principle of the stability of an elected government and the rule of law are the things actually being challenged here, and that if the radical left wins here, any provocation (that is, somebody or something they don't like) will be sufficient for them to try this elsewhere.