OAXACA: 7th MegaMarch Today, violence Likely [View All]

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In a press conference given today by the APPO at 2pm at the encampment in Santo Domingo, spokespersons affirmed that they will continue implementing the plan of action as agreed upon with the Seventh MegaMarch which will leave from the Casa del Gobierno en Santa María Coyotepec tomorow, November 25th, and 10am, heading towards the zócalo to surround the PFP and reiterate their principle demands.



Advisors of the APPO will be shields in the today march

OCTAVIO VELEZ ASCENCIO CORRESPONDENT

Oaxaca, Oax., 24 of November. The Popular Assembly of the Towns of Oaxaca (APPO) announced that before the violence risk, his more than 200 state advisors they will become shields of security during the march that will carry out this Saturday and the cordoning off that during 48 hours will carry out to the agents of Polici'a Federal Preventiva (PFP), quartered around the socle.

The manifestation, to demand the resignation of Ulises governor Ruiz and the retirement of the federal forces of the organization, will leave to the 10 hours the house of government, located on the wagon City German-Port Angel, and will culminate in the Historical Center, affirmed Caesar Mateos Benítez, spokesman of the organization.

It indicated that a great number of agents of the PFP began to let the socle to settle in the stage of futbol Benito Juárez, in the conurbado municipality of Santa Lucia of the Way, and to place detents in the Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca superhighway, in the municipality of Nochixtlán, located to 80 kilometers of the State Capital, and in the house of Huitzo collection, to about 25 kilometers, in order to try to prevent the enter the city of supporters of the popular movement.

It said that the APPO "has discovered a series of actions" of the PFP for "generating violence and a confrontation", in order to repress the demonstrators. An unusual movement of troops exists, "to perhaps take positions outside the socle with the intention to attack to the companions of megamarcha during its passage or when it is being surrounded", it added.

It exposed that more than 200 advisors "they will be in forward edge" kind and vigilant to avoid any aggression of the PFP or "infiltrated provocations of or priístas groups".

It said in addition that the speakers identified like Alexis and Marco Tulio, both of the citizen radio, operated by compatible priístas the governor, "are summoning to attack" to those who participates in the mobilization. They have called to his followers "to throw hot water and acid muriatic" to the supporters of the APPO, it needed.

On the other hand, the APPO last night declared missing Caesar Mateos Benítez, one of their spokesmen, and Jorge Luis Insipid Fields, member of the organization, after extending that both were stopped by agents of the PFP and the police Ministerial and Preventive of the state.

The spokesman and his companion would have been captured around the 20:30 hours in the environs of the camping located in the vestibule of the temple of Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Members of the state advice of the APPO called to the cellular telephone of Mateos Benítez to know their whereabouts, without obtaining answer.