[StJacques]

"The red shirts are anarchists. This is not a Mexican revolution"

The red shirts are apparently policemen acting on their own. I'm going to put something up in just a sec.

[StJacques]

Okay everyone, this is a followup with information about the guys photographed, since so many people have asked questions about who they are. They are local policemen of the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino which I believe lies on the outskirts of Oaxaca City (not sure, but likely).

A smaller version of the following pic is up on the El Universal homepage:





Here is the translation of the caption, and I will preface this with a note that a "Chapulin" is a "Great Green Bush Cricket" though in Mexican slang it also means "kid":

They have been denounced as: Juan Carlos Soriano Velasco (red t-shirt), a policeman nicknamed "El Chapulin," Manuel Aguilar (dark coat), personal head of the municipality, and Avel (sic) Santiago Zárate (red shirt) Regent of Public Security

Remember everyone; these guys are the police trying to retake control of their town and, especially I would think, to protect local businesses which were seized by APPO yesterday. Remember, APPO permits photographers to photograph anyone who attacks them, but they do not permit photographers to photograph them. They threw out the Univision staff a couple of weeks back.

There is also a news note up that Vicente Fox is sending "federal forces" to Oaxaca, but I've seen reports like this before and I'm going to watch it a little more carefully before I post anything on it.