"The intensity of this surge of state-imposed terror became so flagrant in the past few days that on Thursday 9 Nov APPO asked the diocese of Oaxaca to grant asylum to its members – particularly its prominent members who are under threat of assassination. The legal officer of the local Catholic hierarchy, speaking officially, responded promptly – the same day – positively, and with a scathing indictment of the lawless state behavior, asserting in part that there exists “state terrorism and a schizophrenic persecution”.<9>
"To appreciate the full significance of this indictment by Wilfredo Mayren, the legal officer of the local diocese, it’s important to know that the Antequera-Oaxaca Archbishop, José Luis Chávez Botello, had until then, for almost six months, maintained a disgustingly pseudo-neutral position, repeatedly saying he deplores violence, that he wants peace, without ever before acknowledging that the violence was in fact coming almost exclusively from the power structure. He had white flags flown from the two major Catholic architectural treasures of the city, signifying a desire to end the conflict and return to ‘normal’, the ‘normalcy’ enjoyed by the well-to-do and suffered by the poor majority. His preference was for Oaxaca to return to the usual suffering endured by the impoverished majority of Oaxaqueños, to whom the Church could offer eternal joys in heaven, but hardly a crust of bread on earth, to say nothing of human dignity and human rights. In this light the Church’s belated but welcome condemnation of state terrorism is profoundly significant."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2692278----------------
Sounds like this church officer did the right thing, then got overruled by the bishop. But who can really know what's true from an AP article? They are so biased and so unreliable.
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EXAMPLE:
One relentless lie that AP fosters is that the five-month protest in Oaxaca is a violent uprising. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consider the end of this sentence:
"...fearing they might be arrested on charges stemming from their role in demonstrations which at times turned violent."
Turned violent? For five months now, the Oaxaca protest has been COMPLETELY PEACEFUL, AMAZINGLY PEACEFUL, PEACEFUL BEYOND ENDURANCE, while the fascist governor's paramilitaries kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed protesters, and brutally assaulted the teachers union in the middle of the night, when the striking teachers were camping out. ALL the violence--ALL!--has been the lawless and criminal state government AGAINST the protesters, who have not retaliated in any way.
When, finally, the fraudulently elected Fox/Calderon federal government descended on this PEACEFUL PROTEST--which had organized itself into a peoples' assembly and orderly alternative government--with an entire army of Darth Vader forces, complete with helicopters, water hoses and assault rifles--they managed to provoke a few students at the AUTONOMOUS Benito Juarez University in Oaxaca (which cannot, by law, be invaded--it is self-ruled), to throw a few molotov cocktails and rocks at the invaders, in defense of their university--NOW the fascists and corporatists had their pictures and their phrases with which to slander this entirely peaceful, indigenous indian movement led by teachers and community elders who had eschewed violence at every turn. Violence in Oaxaca. Oaxaca protests turn violent. Police, protesters clash in Oaxaca. Armed clashes in Oaxaca. Are a few firecrackers, sticks and stones vs. an army, armed to the teeth with rifles, tear gas, water hoses and helicopters, in ONE incident, over a five month protest, "armed clashes"? WHO "turned violent"? And WHO was carrying the rifles and handguns that aimed at news photographer Brad Will and shot him dead? And WHO was carrying the weapons that shot schoolteacher Emilio Alfonso Fabián dead? And WHO was carrying the weapons that shot Alejandro García Hernández dead? More than a dozen people have been shot dead, over this five month protest, several of them during the "armed clashes," including several deaths by fired tear gas cannister. None of the dead have been police. All of them have been protesters (teachers, nurses, social security workers, children, etc.) or reporters--most of them shot by Gov. Ruiz's police forces and associated paramilitaries. The protesters--the people of Oaxaca--banned firearms, as a political decision. Other weapons have only been used in defense, under extreme provocation, on the rare occasion of their city being under siege by federal police. There is simple no way that "violent clashes" or "armed clashes" or demonstrations "which at times turned violent" describes this situation accurately. AP and other corporate news reports have deliberately misled the public on WHO the violence is coming from.
Photos and text:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2223.htmlScroll down this article to see a photo of the violent protesters of Oaxaca (2nd photo, towards the end):
http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/2006-10-13.htm-------------
Another fine article from NarcoNews, on the peoples' news media in Oaxaca and Mexico:
The Communications War in Oaxaca
Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Has Lost the Media War
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
November 7, 2006
http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2312.html
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