APPO PRESS RELEASE

[Wiley50]

FROM NARCONEWS.COM

Offensive by the Federal Preventive Police Against the People of Oaxaca
Confrontation Continues Between the Police and the APPO in Different Parts of the City
By the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO)
The Other Oaxaca

November 25, 2006

A large number of people are reported detained in various parts of the city. Two deaths are the result of the confrontation. (as of 9:33)

The federal police began, around 5pm, to attack the members of the APPO that were peacefully demonstration in the areas around the zocalo. These aggressions caused the conflict that is still continuing between the police and the members of the APPO and its supporters.

The streets of the historic center area battle ground and the federal police began to discharge fire arms against the protesters about an hour ago. The ministerial police of the state of Oaxaca and the federal preventative forces are investigating in order to apprehend in some part of the city, such as in el Llano, Crespo street and the market Central de Abastos as well as in other parts.

Approximately 40 people are reported detained, 20 of them women. There are various injured people, one of whom is gravely hurt.

Up until now we have the information that two compañeros have lost their lives due to the aggressions, although their identities have not been confirmed.

At the moment the offices of exterior relations (immigration) that are located in Pino Suarez and the offices of the police that are located in Juarez Avenue are on fire.

The Federal Preventive Police together with the state police have unleashed an offensive against the social movement of Oaxaca. The confrontations have arrived to the area around ADO (a bus station) and the hospital IMSS which is located in the street Ninos Heroes.

The APPO has information that because of these recent events the Mexican Army is in Maximum Alert.

Santo Domingo, headquarters of the APPO’s planton (camps in the city’s center) has been removed by the federal police after being taken over by them.

Faced with this offensive against the people and in order to avoid more bloodshed the APPO has decided to retreat.

We demand the punishment of Felipe Calderón, Vicente Fox, Ulises Ruiz for this massacre that is being carried out against the people of Oaxaca.

We call to all of the peoples of Mexico and of the World to carry out mobilizations demanding that this aggression ends.

Punish the murders
Freedom to political prisoners
Long live the heroic people of Oaxaca

APPO

[EFerrari]

1. Okay, so when they say "ministeriales", that means Oaxaca state

police.

That wasn't clear last night but now we know.

[Wiley50]

2. Yep. Nice way to say Gov's Goons

Gee with protection like that for the people

They don't need any enemies

[Wiley50]

3. GOV. ULISES RUIZ ORTEGA MAKES APPEARANCE IN OAXACA

Ulises was here half an hour ago.

He spoke to the workers that started cleaning up the Santo Domingo church area from 7AM on.

Several army helicopters were i the air; one was ebcircling the meeting and Zocalo.

Another went to Radio Universidad area.

Then he left quickly.

Cowardly? No, he was a very brave man to come here after all that time! And he had called some friendly PRI governments police in this morning, who were heavily armed patroling almost at every street corner. He was a very brave man to come her, after PFP, paramilitaries, PRI-gangs, PRI-police, army choppers, etc. As a captain, he was thelast man that left the ship..., or something..?

Other news: The murders seem to be sure; near Facultad de Medicina.

But strange enough all those real war reporters who came here the last days (some even from Baghdad), didn't do their work. Then there are eye witnesses, they are scared. I might get some report. Some even saw a body (fatally shot) dropping against the door/window of the building he/she was in (Radio APPO).



APPO reports 6 murders in total (at some point even a source told 9 killed):

http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/appo_denuncia_muerte_manifestantes_ultimos_1236174.htm



Here some articles

http://www.ansa.it/ansalatina/notizie/notiziari/mexico/20061126173734123207.html



HERE THE LAST DETAINED & MISSING LIST:

http://vientos.info/wiki/index.php?Lista%20detenidos%20y%20desaparecidos%2025%20de%20nov



Lista detenidos y desaparecidos 25 de nov

DETENIDOS

Vani Trinidad Coca Gómez (menor de edad) Hilda Coca Gómez Roque Coca Gómez Helia Coca Gómez Tobe Hilbert Omar Cristian Marcel (UNAM) Ofelia Cesar Mateos Jorge Sosa (hermano Flavio Sosa)

DESAPARECIDOS___

Uriel Julio Méndez Hernández Humberto Vazquez Hernández Ignacio Tablada Galindo Probio Pascual Miguel Cruz Cruz Manuel Cruz Cruz Isai Cruz Martinez Julián Alejandro Ortega Ponces Eber Cruz Pérez David Melchor Cervantes (Estudiante de Derecho UABJO) Justino Juárez Martinez Marcos Herrera Jesus Herrera Eduardo Herrera Javier Sosa Martínez Cesar Herrera Ofelia Esperanza Robles Cruz (detenida-desaparecida) María del Socorro Cruz Alarcón (detenida-desaparecida) Luis Manuel Pacheco Vázquez (estudiante Facultad de Medicina UABJO) Edith Coca Soriano (detenida-desaparecida) Guadalupe Crea Hernández Rosario Alicia Villanueva Florentino Gomez Juan Andres Pacheco Vazquez Donato Vazquez Ortiz (menor 16 años) 8 compañeros de la Coalición de Maestros y Promotores indígenas de Oaxaca (CEMPIO) adherentes de la otra campaña Dionisio Gonzalez (profe, pintor) AureliaSantiago? Reyes Victoria Santiago Reyes Gonzalo Santiago Gerardo (Soriana) Sarah Ivette (francesa) Carlos el guero (df) Paco (guadalajara) Janitzio y sus papas Miguel (vieron cuando lo apañaron) Heberto (Chimalapas)

[Wiley50]

4. VERY INTERESTING ANALYSIS by member of OSAG

My own two cents: Analysis of yesterdays events, and after reading
today's La Jornada,,,

I'd like to focus attention of the pattern of attacks, the configuration
of people, the behavior of the feds, and other events of yesterdays
battles, and congeal them into a coherent analysis. First some
corrections....

Instead of the Oaxacan legislative buildings and External Relations
buildings being burned as I reported, those buildings or offices that
were on fire were: the Poder Judicial Federal (federal judicial power,
ie federal courts), Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado (Superior
Court of the State), El Teatro Juarez (the Juarez theatre, and used to
be the seat of the State Congress), La Secretaria de Turismo de la
Entidad (the Ministry of state tourism), and different commercial
establishments...

Those buildings damaged were: the Relaciones Exteriores (various federal
offices of the foreign relations ministry), the Registro Publico de la
Propiedad (public Registrar of Property), Facultad de Sociologia de
UABJO (Sociology Faculty building), La Asociacion Mexicana de Hoteles y
Moteles (State chapter of the Mex Association of Hotels and Motels).

Plus El Hotel Camino Real, and two big houses suffered minor damage from
molotov cocktails.

And yesterdays reports that there were 8 trucks leaving the 28th Zone
Military Base for the zocalo, never was confirmed and obviously never
arrived at their supposed destination (unless they are there right now,
and I have yet to hear it). However, today La Jornada reports that at
11pm last night there were attacks at the 28th Zone Military base by
unknown assailants. And last night there was an indirect warning from
the Interior Ministry, thru Church officials, to RU or APPO reps (no
sure which) that was duly reported by RU. However, according to todays
news, no direct message was transmitted to APPO negotiators by the
Interiror Ministry, and unlike the last big confrontation (Nov 1 or 2)
where Fox and Abascal convened an emergency cabinet level meeting in DF,
this time they continued to attend a frivolous Guanajuato goodbye
luncheon (with no urgency of leaving for DF, and convening cabinet).

Also there were eye witness reports that before the battles started
there were strange civilian characters congregating in distinct groups,
distinct from other demonstrators, in and around the zocalo, and
distinct from the young people (anarcho punkers, for lack of a better
word), and others who were a part of the mega march. And it was reported
today that during the back and forth battles between APPO and the PFP,
in and around Santo Domingo church, some of these civilians were chasing
and shooting at people running away from Santo Domingo, away from the
PFP.

Meanwhile, the ordinary federal forces, the PFP, the state ministerial
police, and their commanders, IMO seemed to have been unawares of all
the actors involved and played their predictable roles. And after the
military base was attacked, is when there were reports/rumours spread of
them leaving their bases...

Of course, today's headline of the Milenio newspaper suggested, well,
explicitly accused the APPO for everything that transpired yesterday,
and no doubt the official intl newswires will parrot this
interpretation.

However, I think what La Jornada journalists are suggesting, without
actually saying it, and what others suspected yesterday, is that an
unseen hand was at work. That unseen hand was the premeditated
preparations of the state and/or fed priistas in anticipation of the
megamarch. I'll even go so far as to say that the federal govt was
either involved or were informed of these plans. The reason La Jornada
doesnt explicitly accuse priistas, is because as they present the
infromation, above portrayed, is that it is an obvious conclusion (at
least in mexico) by the way priistas have behaved in the past.

So if we look at the targets, buildings and institutions, that were
attacked, we see a tendency to the federal targets, rather than state.
Why would that be suspicious? Because the state priistas know that
provoking the feds, gets their attention, and the more probability of a
strong reaction. Of course the priistas want the reaction to be against
the APPO, and not themselves. The other interesting target is the Motela
nd hotel association, and certain commercial establishments. It is
fairly well known that business people are vulnerable because of their
substantial investments, and it is fairly well known that the local
priista establishment know which businesses need further convincing of
either their support, or their quiet acquiesance. The blatant attack on
the military base is an obvious provocation, to create more repression
againt the APPO, as APPO would be their obvious target, if and when they
entered the fray on the streets...

The local PRI establishemnts are conniving SOBs whether they feel
threatened or when it is business as usual, and like I have said, they
have alot of statewide resources and organizational capacity, and should
not be underestimated at the extent of their complicity and autonomous
initiative (as in, for their own interests and independent of the
federal arm of the party, and beyond federal govt control). That doesnt
mean the feds dont know this, but themselves manipulate these local
establishments for their own ends...

Yesterdays events were a classic revelation of Mexican social reality...

[Wiley50]

5. These companies do business in Oaxaca

These companies do business in Oaxaca


Rio Tinto PLC
6 St James's Square
London SW1Y 4LD
United Kingdom
Tel. [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Rio Tinto Ltd.
33rd Floor
55 Collins Street
Melbourne, VIC, 3001
Australia
Tel. [phone], Fax: [phone]

Subsidiaries:

Rio Tinto's subsidiary Kennecott was fined for illegally mining
uranium in the Loxicha region in southern Mexico's Oaxaca state. Its
license was canceled (in 2001). Under Mexican law, uranium extraction
and processing is the sole prerogative of the state. Kennecott
carried out surface exploration and drilling on three concessions in
Oaxaca, named Elvira I, II and III until October 1999. (unomásuno,
Dec 18, 2001) Source.

Kennecott Exploration was the subsidiary responsible and continues to
have links with the state government of Oaxaca and Ulises Ruiz Ortiz.

For a brief detail, in Spanish, of Kennecott's past record in Oaxaca,
Mexico: ¡Urgente! Confirman exploración de uranio en Loxicha.

Main corporate office:
Kennecott Exploration
224 N 2200 W
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Tel. [phone]
Fax [phone]

USA / Mexico office: (outside of Tucson, AZ)
Kennecott Exploration
10861 N Mavinee Dr # 141
Oro Valley, AZ 85737
Tel. [phone]

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Continuum Resources Ltd., a Canadian mining corporation, which "holds
in excess of 70,000 hectares of exploration ground in the state of
Oaxaca, Mexico. Included in the property portfolio are two of the
most significant past-producers of gold and silver in southern
Mexico: the San Jose epithermal silver-gold deposit and the Natividad
epithermal gold-silver deposit." Source: Continuum corporate site.

Management:
* Greig Hutton, P.Eng President, Director
* Lawrence A. Dick PH.D., P.GEO., Vice President Exploration, Director
* Raul Diaz Unzueta Director General, Mexico
* Robert G. McMorran Chief Financial Officer, Director
* Warren McIntyre Corporate Secretary, Director

Corporate address:
1200 - 1188 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4A2
t. 604.629.0000
f. 604.669.2960
info@...

Continuum is also linked through its San Jose-Taviche mine to Foruna
Silver Mines Inc., another BC, Canada based company:

Fortuna Silver Mines Inc.

Corporate Address:
355 Burrard Street, Suite 840
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V6C 2G8

Telephone:
604 484-4085 ext. 232

Fax:
604 484-4029

Management:
Jorge A. Ganoza Durant, B.Sc. Eng.: President
Luis Ganoza Durant, B.Sc., MBA, M.Sc.: Chief Financial Officer
Jorge R. Ganoza Aicardi, B.Sc. Eng.: VP Operations
Thomas I. Vehrs, Ph.D.: VP Exploration
Simon Ridgway, Chairman: Director
Peter Thiersch, M.Sc., P.Geo.: Director
Mike Iverson: Director
Tomas Guerrero Méndez, Eng.: Director
Sally Whittall: Corporate Secretary

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Other corporations involved in Oaxaca through Plan Puebla Panama
(source):

International Paper
Global Headquarters
6400 Poplar Avenue
Memphis, TN 38197
901-419-9000

Boise Cascade
1111 West Jefferson Street
P.O. Box 50
Boise, ID 83728
phone: [phone]

International Paper Company and Boise Cascade are currently
purchasing land in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico for plantation forestry.

ENDESA (a Spanish corporate utilities group) is the principal
investor in the regional energy interconnection initiative to
privatize energy and develop hydroelectric dams.

ENDESA, S.A. Headquarters:

C/ Ribera del Loira, 60
(Campo de las Naciones)
28042 Madrid
Spain

Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Harken Energy, Applied Energy Services Corporation(AESC), Duke
Energy, and Montgomery Watson Harza (MWH) are all U.S. energy
corporations that are investing from Mexico to Panama in the
development of hydroelectric dams and the privatization of the energy
grid.

Harken Energy is also known due to a scandal involving then corporate
officer George W. Bush in an incident of insider trading, just before
the company stock lost a significant amount of value. Headquartered
in Southlake, TX, Harken Energy continues to have close connections
with George W. Bush's White House.

Harken Energy Corporate Office:
180 State Street, Ste. 200
Southlake, TX 76092
Phone: [phone]

Applied Energy Services (AES) has a record of flagrantly violating
air pollution standards and fixing energy markets by withholding
supply and gouging prices. Class-action lawsuits have been filed
regarding price gouging and withholding supply in California.

AESC Corporate Office:
250 Chaddick Drive
Wheeling, IL 60090
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Duke Energy, headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is fast becoming a mega-
utility by acquiring smaller utilities and power facilities. It is
closely linked to Plan Puebla Panama.

Duke Energy Corporate Office:
526 South Church St.
Charlotte, NC 28202-1904
[phone]

Other investors include Tribasa, Caros, GAN, ICA, Imbursa, Texas
Connection, International Shipholding Corporation, Monsanto, Shell,
Dow Chemical, Exxon, Shell, and Hutchinson Holdings.


on edit:Allies against Rio Tinto can be garned from those who've organized
against its human rights and environmental abuses in Indonesia, and I'm
sure elsewhere.
As for Duke Energy, we have potential allies in the UMW,
environmentalists and outraged utility consumers here in the US.