Reply #16: APPO RALLIES FOR MEGAMARCH, caravans refused gas

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from La Journada 11/05/06


Powerboats refuse to supply to the caravan that will support megamarcha in Oaxaca Reforzara' the APPO protests with blockades The Popular Assembly of the Towns of Oaxaca (APPO) defined new actions today to obtain the exit of Ulises governor Ruiz Ortiz, as wagon blockades and taking of city councils; it declared that the resistance of Thursday against Polici'a Federal Preventiva (PFP)"was a political triumph for the town" of the organization and called "to retake the political offensive in the popular mobilization". Also, the APPO was prepared to mainly receive to the motorized caravan of 10 buses and 20 cars, originating of the center of the country, that transfer to párticipantes in megamarcha of this Sunday, although this late the military detent in San Pablo Etla was reinforced and it knows that the PFP would try to stop to the convoy when it arrived at Huajuapan, in the limits with Puebla, where it parked to continue at the dawn. In addition, the caravan was whereupon in Puebla the stations on watch refused to sell to them combustible, which was combined with the fact that this noon police sent from that organization were detected to reinforce to the state police in the monitoring to the march. Photo In press conference in Santo Domingo, where the long wait of the movement has been concentrated, the APPO assured that the character of the march is Pacific, and although it extended that the long walk would arrive until the historical center, taken by the PFP, limited that not yet the route has been decided and is only confirmed that will leave from the exit to Mexico, in the cruise of Viguera. "We denounced any type of aggression, because the assault groups of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz are interested in that provokers infiltrate, to generate violence", he assured. More forced disappearances Also it offered a list of professors, released students and citizens this morning by the PFP, but it assured that in all the cases they were tortured and vejados. In addition, it denounced the forced disappearance of the White teacher Canseco Méndez, stopped this morning in Nochixtlán, where also Red Jaime Guzmán, student of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the UNAM, and other five people were apprehended, whom not yet the identity was known. Ana Laura Canseco, sister of the disappeared professor, assured that this one escaped by minutes and reached to call by telephone to house of her mother, but she was reaprehendida. In Santo Domingo other cases were known haltings of nontie people the movement, but that happened through the crossing of Five Gentlemen, where Thursday the citizenship faced the PFP. All, assured relatives, were transferred to the femenil penitentiary of Tlacolula, that was reacondicionado specifically by the government of the state to shut in the "rebels". Fernando Vargas related that his Martín brother was stopped at noon to four streets of the commercial center Chedraui, located near the zone of the conflict, when went to its work in a restaurant. Her mother, Marta Cross Rodriguez, referred that at the time of his imprisonment vejado and she was tortured physical and psychological by federal police. Visit to his relative allowed them to know that, in the penitentiary, there are two minor ones, one 13 years and another one of 16, as well as driver which it journeyed by the area, to that they threw to the ground and they struck with tolete, thus had to be suturado with two points. To Marvin Peralta Sanchez the federal police stopped it after it closed his pharmacy, in the zone of Five Gentlemen. A day was missing, until its name spread like possible prisoner. Until then they allowed him to call to his papa and one knew that it was in the penitentiary of Tlacolula. During the conference, Florentino Lopez read the decisive ones of the assembly of the APPO, which ratified that the dialogue with the federal government will be reinitiated when are conditions, and only reiterated its demand to release to all the political prisoners, the presentation with life of the disappear, to restrain the haltings and tortures, as well as the immediate exit of the PFP of Oaxaca. Between the tasks guaranteed by the plenary one of the APPO she is the one to fortify the campaign of sensibilización to the federal police, to impel state civic unemployment and to authenticate the exigency of the disappearance of powers in the state. Another one of the priorities of the movement is to protect and to improve the signal of Radio University. More agents arrive from the PFP While, although the visible presence of the PFP in the city of Oaxaca was reduced, the corporation increased its total number of elements in the organization, after which in both recent days, of discreet way, they arrived at least 2 thousand agents more, they indicated controls of the federal forces. In that sense, a part of the personnel of the socle retired oaxaqueño, situation that in appearance reduced the strength report of the PFP in that zone; nevertheless, now elements of groups of immediate reaction would support to their companions in case on an attempt of the APPO of recovering the area of which they were retired Sunday the past. These measures comprise of the campaign of "distension" that from the past Friday started up the PFP, after their insolvent attempt to reopen the roads that surround the Independent University Benito Juárez de Oaxaca. In spite of it, this day they continued the workings of intelligence in the environs of the campus, which caused to 11 in the morning the halting, by students, of two governmental agents who dedicate themselves to successfully obtain information for security areas, that are known like "indicators". Its retention happened in the barricade of the avenue of the Railroad, that crosses avenue University. After two hours they were given to a military control assigned to Oaxaca, and to the Red Cross, who certificó their good state of health and that was not struck nor tortured. Lazaro Miranda Flowers, identified like lieutenant colonel, in agreement with a credential with A2474195 number, went the one who more resisted to remain quiet while it was into the hands of the students, reason why had to moor feet and hands to him. When he was going to be given to a military man, who refused to provide his name and position, she tried to flee as soon as she felt that the fastenings of their hands were being loosen. However, Pedro Olvera Kings, state police assigned to the Secretariat of Citizen Protection, did not offer greater resistance and for that reason it was given of way immediate to the military command and to the personnel of ambulance OXC-40 of the Mexican Red Cross. In order to avoid that both retained they could identify to those who stopped them, the students and members of the APPO placed hoods to them and they maintained them in the floor of one of the buses that serve as barricade in the well-known zone like Five Gentlemen. While, and after almost two months, the preventive police of the state returned to leave and encamped in the module of revision located in the deviation of the international airport Benito Juárez, on the wagon City German-Port Angel. Nevertheless, within the contingent agents participate who carry vests pertaining to the state police of Puebla, which presumes the participation of cash of that organization, which would constitute a violation to the state sovereignty. In the camping to 80 agents provided with anti-riot equipment and long arms participate about, that have nine light trucks pick up. In addition, the PFP, in coordination with the state Army and corporations has installed detents in the income to the city. In the international highway Cristóbal Columbus, in environs of San Pablo military Etla, cash they review particular vehicles, buses and trucks, with the argument to apply to the Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives and the permanent campaign against the drug trafficking. Also detents in Huajuapan of Leon, Asuncio'n Nochixtlán and Yucudaa were reported, in the region mixteca, as well as in Ocotlán de Morelos, in Central Valleys, presumably to inhibit the passage of the region of the Coast and in Ixtlán de Juárez, North Mountain range. As well, oaxaqueños priests of the arquidiócesis of Oaxaca and the dioceses of Port Escondido and Tehuantepec, as well as of the prelature of Huautla de Jiménez asked for the president of the Conference of Mexican Episcopado (CEM), Jose Guadalupe Martín Rábago, to explain or to rectify their endorsement to the entrance of the PFP to the organization. "the impression which much people have left is that their shepherds have left their town", they indicated. In a letter, the presbíteros asked the bishop of Leon if it spoke in a personal view to name of the CEM or, and although thus outside, "a declaration jeopardizes to all the Mexican episcopado one", mainly because the operative one "brought to Oaxaca repression, three died until, wounded, now jailed, tortured and greater confliction". On the official notice, the priests insisted: "we did not doubt the wisdom of our bishops and their capacity to discern the signs of the times, for that reason we asked ourselves, in fact you could not you anticipate that what looked for the federal government was a blessing for the repression"