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9 de Diciembre, 2006
Mexican Feds Chase State Cops
Categorized under Ley , Oaxaca , Política México | Tags: Bradley Roland Will, Calderon, Oaxaca, Ruiz
WHETHER CALDERON IS GOING AFTER THE OAXACA STATE POLICE and prosecutor so soon after his installment for purely political reasons or because he cares about those people and what happened to them is secondary to the fact that he is going after them. So let's see what the "evidence" shows. I say "evidence" because this is 2006. Unfortunately, I'm betting a few Mexican police get some Abu-Ghraib style scapegoating and the monstrous pocket of decay that formed both the Ruiz boil and Calderon infection will only burble and radiate it's malaise further into the gristle of Mexico's soul.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 8 — Six days after President Felipe Calderón took office, federal agents raided the prosecutor’s office and state police headquarters on Friday in the troubled southern state of Oaxaca, where state law-enforcement authorities have failed to arrest anyone in the killings of at least 11 antigovernment protesters and a New York City journalist.
Around 4:15 p.m., dozens of federal police officers flooded into the offices of the state prosecutor, Lizbeth Caña, and secured the arms cache used by the state judicial police responsible for investigating crimes, according to local news reports.
A police commander, Ardelio Vargas, told the newspaper La Reforma that the federal authorities intended to seize all the police weapons to determine whether they had been used against protesters in recent months. There have been widespread allegations that the local police and municipal officials had abused demonstrators and in some cases killed them.
NY Times Online, Federal Raid on Offices in Troubled Mexican State
A show of justice designed to pacify the people into forgetting they are being controlled and abused is worse than the glaring lack of any justice at all. At least in the latter case, people can conceive of an alternative. They can use their minds and hearts to evaluate the truth of their world to decide whether or not they want to change it.
But I suppose I should be optomistic? I suppose I should give Calderon the benefit of the doubt?
Nah. I'd rather be a bit cynical. If I am to be pleasantly surprised, all the better. After all, as I said: this is 2006.
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