Reply #20: Solidarity in Mexican States and Around the World (PHOTOS & ARTICLE)

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La Journada 11/05/06

Activists of EU and Canada are united to manifestation; he closes momentary of international bridge
Protests in three states by the occupation of Oaxaca; they demand to punish "to the repressive Fox"

Solecito "Outside the panista facist government", demands supporters of the APPO in Sinaloa

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Cash of the Preventive Federal Police prepare for megamarcha of today summoned by the APPO Photo Francisco Olvera

In demand of which Polici'a Federal Preventiva (PFP) leaves Oaxaca and the resignation of the governor of the state, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, hundreds of people pronounced yesterday in the international bridge Mexico Door, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and in front of the municipal palace of Mazatlán, Sinaloa.

Members of the Coalition pro Justice of the Assembly plants protested to the shout of "Oaxaca is not quarter, outside Army of him" in the environs of the international bridge, the second crosses more important of Matamoros, same that they crossed until the environs of the house of revision of the estadunidense side.

In one hour of transit to vehicular intense, activists of Mexico, the United States and Canada showed their support to the town of Oaxaca, that demands the disappearance of powers and the exit of the priísta Ruiz Ortiz.

Headed by Marta Ojeda, general coordinator del gremial organism, to the demonstrators was united colonos to them of Matamoros, that carried placards and blankets to accompany the slogans that caused greater presence of migration agents and customs of United States. The closing of the crossing was forced.
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Bus of the solidarity caravan that left yesterday from the Chamber for Juárez for the city of Oaxaca PHOTO Jose Antonio Lopez

In Mazatlán, Sinaloa, members of the group Citizen Networks showed their endorsement to the Popular Assembly of the Towns of Oaxaca (APPO), and with blankets and placards placed in the environs of the mayorship demanded punishment to the "repressive government" of Vicente Fox Quesada and stops to the police intervention in the organization sureña.

"All we are Oaxaca" and "Outside the panista facist government of Oaxaca" was some of slogans.

They inform and they collect food in Veracruz

Civil and magisteriales organizations of Veracruz installed in the seat Miguel Lerdo of the port jarocho a table of permanent information on the situation in Oaxaca and initiated the compilation of food to support the resistance of the APPO.

The activists also began to compile the companies that will be integrated to a letter of solidarity with their homologous oaxaqueños in which they demand that "the Ulises assassin is dismissed Ruiz", retires the police force, the murders of teachers are punished and it frees myself to the political prisoners of the movement.

Thursday leaves caravan the Bees to Oaxaca

A caravan composed by more than 200 people, summoned by the indigenous organization the Bees, will leave the community of Acteal, Chiapas, Thursday 9 of November, informed its leader Agustín Vázquez.

The agreement was taken yesterday during a meeting conducted in San Cristóbal of the Houses, in which they participated representing in other groupings that have decided to add themselves to the call of the Bees to take humanitarian aid to the APPO.

"the government, who has not known to respond with the reason and the dialogue to the right demands of the APPO, has responded with violence, remembering the worse moments of our history: the slaughters of students in 1968 and 1971, and the one of Acteal, in 1997", he showed the grouping in a given document to know after the meeting, to which they went more than 100 people.

Exit of the PFP would demonstrate weakness of the State: Ramiro Hernandez

The representative of the special subcommission of the Senate for the case Oaxaca, the priísta Ramiro Hernandez, justified the presence of the PFP in that organization, "while the respect to the legal frame does not recover". Its presence, said, "it must like principle guarantee the observance of the legality", and its possible exit would demonstrate the weakness of the institutions of the Mexican State.

Nevertheless, it assured that the happened thing in Oaxaca "is not more than the reflection of a weak and irresponsible exercise of president Fox", and indicated that this type of declarations only serves to create a climate of uncertainty and breath to the conflict.

It recognized that even with the entrance of the public force the reestablishment of the order in the organization has not been obtained sureña, but the violence has not broken out again nor has been registered either bloodshed.

Also, Ruiz called to Ulises to make an exercise of responsible reflection so that she decides if it is advisable that she continues to the front of the gubernatura of the organization. "I believe that who must solve if she can to be able to govern he is the own governor, and she must do it in an exercise of responsible reflection so that the solution of the problem can be constructed".

Julia To Him Duc, Irene Sanchez, Elio Henríquez, Andrés T. Morales and Nelda J. Anzar, correspondents