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6 de Noviembre, 2006
Explosions Hit Mexico City
Categorized under Política México | Tags: indigenous, mexico, Oaxaca
BLOWING THE NEWS OF A PEACEFUL MARCH OF THOUSANDS out of the news cycle completely, the Associated Press reports that multiple explosions have occurred in Mexico City. And Mexico's struggle continues playing out right in front of our eyes.
(AP) MEXICO CITY — Simultaneous explosions hit the Federal Electoral Tribunal, a bank branch and the headquarters of the former ruling party early Monday and authorities deactivated a homemade explosive device at a second bank branch, Mexican news media reported.
Authorities told Mexican news media there were no injuries. ...
Monday's explosions occurred against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts in the southern state of Oaxaca, where protesters have maintained barricades in the capital city since May to press their demands for the resignation of PRI governor Ulises Ruiz. The demonstrators accuse Ruiz of rigging the 2004 election to win office and sending groups of gun-toting thugs to subdue his opponents.
The protests have led to violent confrontations with state officials and federal police that have left at least nine people dead. The clashes have rattled Fox's administration and scared international tourists away from Oaxaca."
Associated Press Release
I have to tell you: I love how so many articles written on Oaxaca end with a lamentation over the tourists that are being affected.
The AP reports also that entrance to the PRI auditorium was destroyed, and that "emergency officials" were warned by telephone that the bombs were to be detonated.
A "Mark Metzelaar" posting to Oaxaca Study Action Group is concerned with the way the news cycle seems to be manipulated, and poetically titles his message "They destroyed the MegaMarcha news":
Immediate effects of these small bombs were that almost no news about yesterdays succesfull, massive and peacefull (except for a PRI hitman) MegaMarcha was transmitted.
That is their standard tactic; just make an excuse to transmit something else, like for appr.11 days the false fisherman's story, taking the force out of Lopez Obrador's movement after he'd brought 2-3 million people to the Zocalo in Mexico-city."
—poster "Mark Metzelaar", OSAG
The "Mexican Presidency" condemns the explosions, The APPO denies involvement, miserable rightwing bloggers predictably and cynically blame the Left; American bloggers/losers-who-can't-even-cite-sources lump it all together to justify a bigger wall; Mexico's peso drops in value after the bombs, the US Media continues to ignore this historical unrest to the South of her ever-heaven-pointed nariz, Texas begins online testing of border cameras, and I wonder when the poor and the weak (and las mujeres) of Mexico will ever see justice.
In Mexico, there are movements, there are revolutions and change, but for the indigenous nothing changes.”
—Subcomandante Marcos
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kick it, ése.