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A year on, its still rumbling on...

Fresh fighting in Oaxaca city yesterday, looks like its kicking off there again.

The EPR have claimed responsibilty for attacking oil pipelines in central Mexico.

Meanwhile Obrador held a rally to mark a year since the election fraud a week or two ago. Poorly attended. The people seem to have moved on.
 
chilango said:
Meanwhile Obrador held a rally to mark a year since the election fraud a week or two ago. Poorly attended. The people seem to have moved on.
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Or woke up to the fact that Obrador's gift to the Catholic fundamentalists who defrauded him in the election was to march his supporters round and round in circles howling slogans at the wind until they all got fed up and left.
 
bigfish said:
Or woke up to the fact that Obrador's gift to the Catholic fundamentalists who defrauded him in the election was to march his supporters round and round in circles howling slogans at the wind until they all got fed up and left.
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innit.
 
The EPR have denounced the preconditions for talks with the govt.

Apparently the govt not only demanded that they give up their arms, but their beliefs as well prior to any discussions.

Meanwhile two alleged Epperistas dissappeared by the military are still missing.

Whislt the group has been linked to attacks on powerful ranchers in the state of Guerrero who have murdered antilogging activists.

Elsewhere, there are rumours that some Zapatista prisoners may be returned to Chiapas or even freed.

Whilst the trafficantes have murdered 100s this year, including the chief antidrug cop in the country (yesterday here in the city) and have started letting bombs off in Mexico City.


There were riots yesterday on the edge of Mexico City against police raids on an informal market, and teachers have been fighting the police in the state of Michoacan.

:(
 
fuck. i wish i'd known about this thread when i was writting esays on mexico ... ;)

that latest situation sounds pretty fucked up chilango. :( didn't a bomb go off by you a few weeks ago - so the gangsters behind it?
 
organised crime is pretty influential there isn't it? i remember reading that during the years the PRI ruled the country a lot of the time you couldn't tell where the gov't ended and the drug smugglers and criminals began ... and it's still true to a certain extent now ...
 
Mexico mass grave found near Iguala after protests

A mass grave has been found on the outskirts of the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on 27 September, officials say.

It is not clear whether the bodies found in a pit are those of the missing students, who were last seen being forced into police vans.

The group had travelled to the area, in the state of Guerrero, to take part in a protest over teachers' rights.
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A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Mexico's October Risings

Largely downplayed in the U.S. media, ground-shaking events are rattling Mexico. On one key front, Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong announced October 3 the Pena Nieto administration’s acceptance of many of the demands issued by striking students of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). IPN Director Yoloxichitl Bustamante, whose ouster had been demanded by the students, handed in her resignation.
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A survivor's account here.

He sensed something was wrong and ran for his life.

“There was gunfire coming from all directions and police or gunmen blocking the exits. But another student and I managed to find a way out through an alley. We ran onto another street and there was a man outside his house. He was suspicious at first but we explained we were just students and he let us go into his house. We stayed there until the morning. He saved us,” Eusebio says.
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Yeah. Town has historical links with the EPR and Lucio Cabanas' Party of the Poor. Some news reports highlight the talk of guerilla presence in the area. Certainly I remember the rumours in that area. Murky. The dirty war continues.
 
France24
Mexican officials said Tuesday that DNA from 43 students who went missing more than two weeks ago didn’t match samples taken at a mass grave uncovered in the wake of their disappearance, deepening the intrigue surrounding the southern city of Iguala.

Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced that forensic laboratories had returned the first results from the mass grave containing 28 bodies, but the DNA did not correspond with samples that relatives of the missing students had provided to authorities.

He nevertheless cautioned that he was still waiting for DNA results from an undisclosed number of corpses found in other graves outside the city of Iguala, 200 kilometres south of Mexico City in the state of Guerrero.
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Lots of confusion over the identities.
However, upon hearing the news, the Argentinian Anthropological Forensic Team (EAAF) stated that they still could not conclusively determine that the bodies do not belong to the missing students. A spokesperson for the team stated “We respect what the Attorney General has said, but we do not have our own results [yet].” He suggested they would have results within 3 weeks.

The internationally renown Argentinian team is collaborating on the investigation at the invitation of the families of the students and human rights organizations. They have reported that the Mexican authorities have impeded their work and there exists some animosity between the groups.
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phildwyer said:
Why on earth not?

I´m in Mexico right now. I feel a lot safer than I do in Cardiff city center at closing time on a Saturday night.

Basically, unless you´re looking for trouble or incredibly unlucky, you´ll be fine here.
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Unless you're a poor Mexican student...

E2A: Just noticed what you said about Cardiff. Bit tasteless.
 
There was an excellent piece on Against the Grain with John Gibler talking about recent events, the historical background, the idiocy of seeing the narcos and the state as separate, the outsourcing/privatisation of state terror etc
 
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Some marketing chump in Shoreditch is probably eating their own fist after thinking this was a good idea at the time.
 
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