[StJacques]

"Another ultimatum."

Yes; but people are getting killed and private property, especially of small business owners, is becoming meaningless. There is also some evidence, I refer to a post on the Mark in Mexico Blog, that APPO may be telling their people not to resist the Mexican PFP if they come, there are in fact contrary quotes listed.

It looks like something is about to happen, but I've thought that before, so I'll just say it looks "more likely than in the recent past."

And I'm pinging the list with my personal note that I am keeping an eye on this.

[rpgdfmx]

I disagree with "Mark in Mexico" about 99.99 percent of the time, but give him credit for catching this. The APPO has been protesting the STATE government, and -- at least among those who are limited to that goal -- wanting federal intervention, since it does bolster their claim that the State Government is incompentent and unable to perform (Mexico is unusual in that the people can withdraw their support from the local government, forming a "municipio libre" when the local gov. is totally inept, or just doesn't met their needs. There are a few municipio libres scattered around the country, with federal representation and their own form of local government).

The APPO is not necessarily "leftist" (remember that Gov. Ruiz was elected against a left-right-center coalition candidate in a race no one ever pretended was above board and honest) -- it includes PAN and Convergencia (Social-Democrats, which would be "left" in the U.S., but centerists in the rest of the world). PRD, PAN and Convergencia politicians at the local and national level have all been pushing for a federal "dissolution" of the State government, but have been blocked by PRI, mostly out of loyalty to Gov. Ruiz. It's no different than Democrats or Republicans in the U.S. blocking censure of an obvious malfactor in the House of Reps, something we've seen again and again... though with much less immediate and life threatening implications than in Oaxaca.

[armymarinemom]

Thanks for the link to Mark from Mexico. I actually put this link up on our Milblog site. Indymedia is doing there best here in the US to try to make the APPO sound peaceful.