Mexico expels five U.S. citizens for political activism in Oaxaca

OAXACA - Mexican migration authorities gave five U.S. tourists three days to leave the country for participating in political activities in the southern state of Oaxaca, a migration official announced Thursday.

Maria Baltazar said that the five young people were taken into custody in front of the Oaxaca government palace, where a group of villagers from Santo Domingo Teojomulco have been holding a protest since June 7 demanding the release of 14 peasants accused of carrying out a massacre of Indians.

Baltazar said the U.S. citizens had been identified as Simon Sedillo, Kimberly Kern, Jason Massaro, Toryn Tonasello and Christopher Mellen, whose ages ranged between 19 and 27 years.

The protesting peasants, supported by the U.S. tourists, are demanding freedom for 14 of their comrades accused of participating in the May massacre of 26 Zapotec Indians in Agua Fria.

One of the demonstrators said the five Americans had passed themselves off as journalists.

Found this on from the guy named Simon :

The truth about Zapatistas

This letter is in response to Amy Chozik's March 27 article on the Zapatista caravan to Mexico City. I am a cultural anthropology undergrad, specializing on the active applications of the Zapatista intuition, while working with the UT student alliance, Accion Zapatista (AZ). I traveled with a friend to Mexico City, as did many of my friends and colleagues, to learn, enjoy and contribute to this moment in Mexican and world history. Our experience was extremely different to the one discussed in the March 27 article. Many of the diverse supporters that went from Austin to the Federal District of Mexico in support of this movement, took an active part in the success of the EZLN demonstration. A number of actions are occurring in subsequence to the wealth of knowledge returned form this cultural event. AZ is screening a documentary by Big Noise Films titled "Storm From The Mountains" at the Union Theatre at 7 p.m. on Monday April 2. Many other events and actions are under way. For more information, contact AZ at http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave, and for an introductory analysis of the March 11 demonstration, the Zapatista intuition and the movement's active applications to dilemmas of political, social and cultural inequity on a global level, contact ""

Thank you for your time and support.

Simon Sedillo
Anthropology senior
Accion Zapatista

"This is absolutely choice in light of the illegal aliens who participate in marches up here weekly. They vote in our elections and seek to involve themselves in every aspect of our system."

Also the officials of the Mexican Government who are up here constantly "involving themselves" in our government to get more privileges for THEIR CITIZENS HERE ILLEGALLY.

Has anyone seen Che Guevara lately? I wouldn' be surprised he is behind this.

Sí. Zapatista=Communista.

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
New Link: Download 8 Mb zip file here (60 minute video)

Our Constitution does too! It says "we the people of the United States" not we the people of Europe, of Mexico, of Canada or any other backwater hole.

Hunt down

Arrest

Deport all illegal migrants

MIGRANT

Main Entry: mi·grant
Pronunciation: 'mI-gr&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin migrant-, migrans, present participle of migrare
Date: 1760: one that migrates:
as a: a person who moves regularly in order to find work especially in harvesting crops
b: an animal that shifts from one habitat to another

- migrant adjective

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