Oaxaca crisis threatens incoming Mexican president

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OAXACA, Mexico, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Violent street protests and a stubborn state governor who refuses to step down could make life very difficult for Mexico's incoming president unless peace is forged quickly in the chaotic tourist city of Oaxaca.

After refusing for five months to deploy federal forces to end increasingly violent clashes in Oaxaca, outgoing President Vicente Fox changed tack during the weekend and flooded the picturesque city with thousands of riot police.

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President-elect Felipe Calderon, who takes over from Fox on Dec. 1, is likely to inherit the Oaxaca crisis as well as face separate protests led by his left-wing rival who alleges massive fraud in the fiercely contested July election.

"This is very costly for Calderon. Oaxaca is not going to be resolved in the next month," said Soledad Loaeza, a political analyst at the Colegio de Mexico. "It is a very difficult situation, very complicated."

Reuters

[Peace Patriot]

1. "...increasingly violent clashes..." is corporate horseshit. The protesters,

led by the teachers' union, have harmed no one. But they have been harmed, mortally in several cases--by assassins and kidnappers in the pay of Governor Ruiz. The protest was sparked when he and his police thugs brutally assaulted striking teachers, who were camped out for the night, while they slept. That happened in June, and millions of Oxacans rose up to throw out the state government, which is in power from a fraudulent election in 2004, anyway, and to form an indigenous government, as is provided for in the Mexican Constitution. The corporate news monopolies keep spinning this as a "violent" protest. It is not. It has been exceedingly peaceful and orderly.

See NarcoNews.com for the real story.

[EFerrari]

3. It has to be true, our State Dept spokeswhore said it. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. Costly for Calderon? For Calderon?

I hope so. I hope he pays up the whazoo for the crimes his cronies are committing against the people of Oaxaca.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Hoping this ordeal wears Felipe Calderon right down to the bone.

He's got it coming after stealing the election. It would be heavenly to see his karma run right over this dishonest right-winger.

American broadcast news programs have claimed the American journalist, Brad Will, was a victem who was "caught in the crossfire." If you remember seeing the photos he took during his last moments, the man who nailed him was pointing his gun directly at Brad Will, and no one else. He was quite close to Will, as you could easily see his complete face, and could have easily seen whom he was killing, even if he had been wildly near-sighted. There was no "crossfire" about it.

Right-wing history rewrites in the news really offend when you know the truth, don't they?

[gorbal]

5. Check out this biased report in USA today

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-11-01-oaxaca-tourism_x.htm

After all I have read, and all that I see they have altered what has happened, I cannot see how they live with themselves.