News from Mexico City
Tochtli | 30.10.2006 14:19 | Repression | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | World
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Body: Protesters, police clash in Mexico City
Sympathizers of the movement that controlled Oaxaca City for months faced off with police in the capital on Sunday
Body: Protesters, police clash in Mexico City
Sympathizers of the movement that controlled Oaxaca City for months faced off with police in the capital on Sunday
Subject at mexico city
Body: Protesters, police clash in Mexico City
Sympathizers of the movement that controlled Oaxaca City for months faced off with police in the capital on Sunday
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The Herald Mexico
El Universal
Lunes 30 de octubre de 2006
While police descended on Oaxaca City on Sunday, law en forcement and protesters also faced off in the capital.
Around 200 members and sympathizers of the Oaxaca Peo ple´s Popular Assembly (APPO) and the Oaxaca chapter of the teachers union seized two city trolley buses and slashed their tires, using the vehicles to block traffic in front of the capital’s em blematic Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) in the city cen ter.
STANDOFF
For two hours, the demonstra tors and capital police faced off, with the protesters threatening to burn the buses and throwing chunks of ice. Eventually, amid shoving and blows, the police forced the protesters off of Eje Central, a central north-south artery of the city.
The majority of demonstrators marched away, spray painting slo gans onto the street as they left. They then directed protests in front of the Interior Secretariat and Televisa network, who they accuse of false reporting about the ongoing conflict.
The buses, covered with communist and anarchist graffiti, were eventually towed away while the remaining protesters peered down at the ranks of police from the patio of the nearby Ban co de México building. Families and Sunday strollers stopped to watch, curiously observing the spectacle, while street vendors continued to sell from their stalls just steps away from both sides.
Earlier in the day, close to 100 protesters demonstrated in front of the ritzy Hotel Nikko in the Polanco neighborhood, where embattled Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz was reported to be staying. They threatened to enter the ho tel and search for Ruiz “room by room, door by door.”
Also on Sunday, hunger strik ers demanding Ruiz’s resignation entered their 14th day without eating. They listened to the broad cast of a Oaxaca radio station seized by teachers and APPO members. Tears were shed when the signal went off the air in the af ternoon.
Body: Protesters, police clash in Mexico City
Sympathizers of the movement that controlled Oaxaca City for months faced off with police in the capital on Sunday
- A A A +
The Herald Mexico
El Universal
Lunes 30 de octubre de 2006
While police descended on Oaxaca City on Sunday, law en forcement and protesters also faced off in the capital.
Around 200 members and sympathizers of the Oaxaca Peo ple´s Popular Assembly (APPO) and the Oaxaca chapter of the teachers union seized two city trolley buses and slashed their tires, using the vehicles to block traffic in front of the capital’s em blematic Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Palace) in the city cen ter.
STANDOFF
For two hours, the demonstra tors and capital police faced off, with the protesters threatening to burn the buses and throwing chunks of ice. Eventually, amid shoving and blows, the police forced the protesters off of Eje Central, a central north-south artery of the city.
The majority of demonstrators marched away, spray painting slo gans onto the street as they left. They then directed protests in front of the Interior Secretariat and Televisa network, who they accuse of false reporting about the ongoing conflict.
The buses, covered with communist and anarchist graffiti, were eventually towed away while the remaining protesters peered down at the ranks of police from the patio of the nearby Ban co de México building. Families and Sunday strollers stopped to watch, curiously observing the spectacle, while street vendors continued to sell from their stalls just steps away from both sides.
Earlier in the day, close to 100 protesters demonstrated in front of the ritzy Hotel Nikko in the Polanco neighborhood, where embattled Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz was reported to be staying. They threatened to enter the ho tel and search for Ruiz “room by room, door by door.”
Also on Sunday, hunger strik ers demanding Ruiz’s resignation entered their 14th day without eating. They listened to the broad cast of a Oaxaca radio station seized by teachers and APPO members. Tears were shed when the signal went off the air in the af ternoon.
Tochtli