Posted on 08/01/2007 2:17:10 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
OAXACA, Mexico — A small, homemade bomb exploded outside a Sears store in the troubled southern city of Oaxaca early Wednesday, damaging the entrance but causing no injuries, authorities reported.
A similar bomb was found and deactivated outside the entrance of a nearby bank, state Attorney General Evencio Martinez told national radio station W Radio.
"I believe it could be (the work of) local groups, given the type and style of device," Martinez said.
He denied the bombs were related to the People's Revolutionary Army, a small leftist group that bombed gas pipelines in July. Sears in Mexico is operated by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. In 2004, a faction of the rebel group placed small bombs outside banks and an office of Telmex, Slim's telephone company.
Television footage from the shopping mall, where the bomb exploded hours before businesses opened, showed glass scattered across a parking lot and damage to a steel security curtain and parts of the entrance.
Oaxaca's state government said in a news release that police were investigating.
Oaxaca has suffered more than a year of political unrest, and on Tuesday, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan urged Mexican federal officials to investigate alleged police abuse against demonstrators.
Khan presented a report describing the unsolved killings of 18 people, arbitrary detentions and other abuses during last year's Oaxaca protests.
"The federal government cannot avoid its responsibility to guarantee the protection of human rights in the state of Oaxaca," Khan said.
The conflict began in May 2006 as a strike by teachers seeking higher pay and quickly grew into a broader movement known as the People's Assembly of Oaxaca, or APPO. It included Indian groups, students, farmers and leftists who claim Gov. Ulises Ruiz rigged his electoral victory and has repressed opponents.
Ruiz, who met with Khan on Tuesday, rejected the report.
"We told them that we believe those who wrote it are advisers for the APPO," Ruiz said after the meeting.
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E. Eduardo Castillo contributed to this report from Mexico City.
La Bamba!.............
la bomba!
Ritchie Valens was unavailable for comment.
I don’t understand the Sears target............I know they have Wal-Marts there......
It's part of the "Yankee Go Home" anti-Americanism that is rampant throughout Mexico.
Give them time, they'll target Wal-Mart also.
“Give them time, they’ll target Wal-Mart also.”
We call those “Mexi”-Marts here in North Mississippi!
Some nutcase Mexican lefty or environmentalist, probably. Yawn. They so dumb.
Glad nobody was hurt.
“Yankee Go Home” anti-Americanism that is rampant throughout Mexico?........Then why are they all COMING HERE?..........
People’s Assembly of Oaxaca is a Marxist group linked to Commandante Marcos in Chiapas. It would not surprise me a bit if the Mexicans announced that the APPO are getting help from Cuba. Calderon needs to crack down again, and hard on this kind of activity. There have been Sears stores in Mexico since the 1950s, but until NAFTA they could only sell the crappy stuff made in Mexico. Now they are like Sears stores in the U.S.
Because they despise living in the rathole called Mexico.
The last Sears I was in was as dirty as any Wal-Mart.
I’m not sure if that’s the connection, though.
So if you get a poncho there is it a real poncho, I mean a Mexican poncho or is it a Sears poncho?
I’m sorry to hear the bad scene at Sears in Mexico.
Incidentally, I hope everyone will support their local Sears stores. They are doing great things for the families of their employees who are deployed in the M.E.
Sears deserves our patronage where ever possible.
I’m sorry to hear the bad scene at Sears in Mexico.
Incidentally, I hope everyone will support their local Sears stores. They are doing great things for the families of their employees who are deployed in the M.E.
Sears deserves our patronage where ever possible.
Actually the indian people in Chiapas state have a legitimate beef with the Mexican powers that be. They are willing to start the revolution that the “mixed blood” Mexicans are unwilling to do to overthrow that crooked government.
Carlos Slim?
Where in the world do you live? Our Wal-Marts and Sears are very clean, as well as K-Mart and Target stores.............
You have Mexico confused with Nicaragua circa 1970, I'm afraid.
I have traveled throughout Mexico, and most folks there have no problem with Americans as individuals, nor do they mind the dollars we spend there.
Oaxaca is a very volatile state, one which has been giving the PAN government hell for the past six years. Southern Mexico in general has seen tremendous social strife, as the economic gap between the largely Indian and rural south grows between the more prosperous (and mestizo) northern part of the country.
I’m not confused. I have traveled throughout Mexico since the early 70s; I was there as recently as last March when I made my fourth visit to the Copper Canyon at Divisadero Barrancas in the state of Chihuahua. And while I’ve never stopped to count the times I have heard that phrase I can safely estimate it to be well in the dozens. And yes, they do like our dollars. But they don’t like them enough to not show their disdain for the wealthy northern neighbors when given the chance.
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