San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government.
romper el cerco
Unbelievable events take place: the police attacks a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the City, confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of 14 year old boy.
This documentary reveals the mass media’s strategy that ignores the concerns of the population and generates a climate of fear in order to justify a massive police deployment.
3.000 riot cops enter Atenco with a cruel brutality. The results are devastated homes, massive and arbitrary arrests, rapes and several violations of human rights that remind us of the Latin American dictatorships of the 70s. Solidarity protests take place from Berlin to Montreal. “Breaking the siege” tells the story of those who didn’t get the chance to speak in the mass media and who do not feel intimidated in the struggle for their rights.
a film by Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios
DVD 47 minutes, multilingual, copyleft
Spanish with subtitles in English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese
Order the film by sending an email to:
orders@cinerebelde.org
Links:
Chiapas independent media centre
http://chiapas.indymedia.org
http://www.canalseisdejulio.com/
http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org/
watch, discuss and spread the film. Download possibilities here.
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=122886
More information about the film: romperelcerco@yahoo.com.mx
This documentary reveals the mass media’s strategy that ignores the concerns of the population and generates a climate of fear in order to justify a massive police deployment.
3.000 riot cops enter Atenco with a cruel brutality. The results are devastated homes, massive and arbitrary arrests, rapes and several violations of human rights that remind us of the Latin American dictatorships of the 70s. Solidarity protests take place from Berlin to Montreal. “Breaking the siege” tells the story of those who didn’t get the chance to speak in the mass media and who do not feel intimidated in the struggle for their rights.
a film by Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios
DVD 47 minutes, multilingual, copyleft
Spanish with subtitles in English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese
Order the film by sending an email to:
orders@cinerebelde.org Links:
Chiapas independent media centre
http://chiapas.indymedia.org http://www.canalseisdejulio.com/ http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org/ watch, discuss and spread the film. Download possibilities here.
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=122886 More information about the film:
romperelcerco@yahoo.com.mx 
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