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Thousands demonstrate in Mexican city
The Houston Chronicle ^ | Nov. 5, 2006 | IOAN GRILLO
Posted on 11/06/2006 12:29:38 AM PST by CrawDaddyCA
OAXACA, Mexico — Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through this tense colonial city on Sunday, demanding the security forces abandon camps they set up last week to end a five-month protest.
Masked police officers clutching automatic weapons watched the protesters from rooftops as they marched to a plaza about a block away from the encampments, yelling "Get out federal police!"
The leaders then formed a human chain to keep the crowd of 20,000 from confronting police, but about 400 people broke through and attacked the officers with stones and bottles. Some of the police lobbed rocks back, while officers on rooftops used sling shots to shoot marbles at those trying to confront the police.
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Reports: Three explosions in Mexico City at federal electoral tribunal, party headquarters, bank
AP ^ | November 6 2006
Posted on 11/06/2006 1:04:16 AM PST by jmc1969
Three simultaneous explosions occurred late Sunday night in Mexico City, destroying an entrance at the headquarters of a leading political party and apparently affecting the Federal Electoral Tribunal and a bank branch.
The government news agency Notimex said there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Mexico City Fire Department official Daniel Flores told The Associated Press that authorities were responding to the scene, but he had no additional information.
At the headquarters of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, the entrance to an auditorium located on one side of the building had been destroyed, its door blown out, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene.
Chunks of concrete, shattered glass and the concrete bust of former Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles, the PRI's founder for whom the auditorium is named, lay scattered on the ground. There appeared to be little damage immediately inside the building.
Police investigators used flashlights to sift through the rubble, but declined to talk to the news media.
A PRI representative told radio station Formato 21 the explosions were probably carried out by groups trying to destabilize the government before President-elect Felipe Calderon's swearing-in on Dec. 1. Calderon is a member of the ruling National Action Party of President Vicente Fox.
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>>Some of the police lobbed rocks back, while officers on rooftops used sling shots to shoot marbles at those trying to confront the police.<<
Cindy, is this a joke?