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People in the Zapotec community of Santiago Xanica in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca continue to struggle for their right to choose their municipal president in an assembly by means of traditional practices and customs and to gain the freedom of the first political prisoners of the Ulises Ruiz regime in the face of threats, harassment, and arrest warrants on the eve of the municipal elections of August 26.
 August 22nd, 2007 - Carolina writes: The road to Xanica climbs up from Huatulco through a beautiful forest. It’s rough and unpaved, but the driver of our wooden-railed pick-up knows all the ruts and curves, even in the rain. He’s lived there all his life. His name is Isaías.
He talks to the two of us, who were lucky enough to be riding up front, about the woods and the deer and possums and armadillos that live there. Then he says, “See those lights? They’re the lights of Xanica.” On our two-hour ride they look really distant, then closer, then even further away, but there they are, shining clearly through the mist, always visible in this part of the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca. Isaías answers our questions and tells about the state of siege in his town.
Only later did I learn that he’s one of eight people from Xanica with warrants out for his arrest. (en español)
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POLITICAL DECLARATION OF THE POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA. AUGUST 9th, 2007
TO THE MEDIA
TO THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA
AND TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
The past electoral process for the renovation of the local congress is a political thermometer to value the distrust of the people and of the citizenship of the system of parties and the institutions. In front of the APPO call to the vote of punishment in opposition to the PRI, PAN, PVEM, PANAL AND ALLIES, today it has been proof that the people of Oaxaca have waken up, and that these people could locate with accuracy to the different electoral actors for their lack of elementary commitments like justice, among many others. The intelligent people also recognized those who act against them, when the solidarity to demand the exit of the assassin Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) was more needed. It was not, nor is the aim of the APPO, to give the vote to any political party at all; and the abstentionism is a proof of the lack of credibility of those who contended in the elections, and represents the face of the antidemocracy of the political parties, which are far away from the people’s inspirations, repeating the political control by party bosses and the estates of power. (en español)
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July 26th, 2007 - CODEP writes: APPO is a popular magisterial movement formed to resolve the conflict created by the tyrant Ulisés Ruiz and backed by ex President Vicente Fox Quesada and the illegitimate Fecal and all of the government apparatus that support them in the state of Oaxaca.
In November 2006 APPO finally met and formally constituted its existence as the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca despite the obstacles created by some organizations that opposed its creation.
Among the themes generated by this assembly were defining the characteristics that APPO should have, as well as the objectives that it should strive for, based on the following general considerations (en español)
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BOLETIN DE PRENSA DE LA APPO. 16 DE JULIO 2006
A los medios de comunicación
A la opinión publica nacional e internacional
 El dial de hoy 16 de julio, habíamos anunciado la realización de la guelaguetza popular en el auditorio guelaguetza, ubicada en el cerro del fortín, sin embargo desde hace dos días, diversos cuerpos policíacos, tanto municipal, estatal y el ejercito, se posesionaron del cerro del fortín, para iniciar la ofensiva general en contra del pueblo de Oaxaca.
El día de hoy con la finalidad de iniciar las festividades del lunes del cerro, iniciamos la actividad con una calenda hacia las calles del centro histórico de la ciudad, con una ruta que pasaba cerca del cerro del fortín, en concreto en las afueras del hotel fortín plaza, en donde los diversos cuerpos policíacos, tenían sitiado el cerro, nuestro contingente se acerco para estar gritando las consignas de repudio en contra de este estado de sitio.
Los cuerpos policíacos habían con antelación preparado una provocación nuevamente, la agresión inicio con el lanzamiento de gases lacrimógenos, de los diversos cuartos del hotel fortín plaza, y continuaron con la agresión los policías apostados al frente nuestros contingentes lanzando gases lacrimógenos, piedras y divisos objetos en contra del contingente de la APPO.
Fotos en CMI Chiapas
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June 18, 2007 - Alianza MagonistaZapatista:
DENUNCIATION BY THE MAGONISTA-ZAPATISTA ALLIANCE
alianzamagonistazapatista@yahoo.com.mx
The members of the Magonista-Zapatista Alliance (AMZ) strongly denounce the little dictator of Oaxaca Ulises Ruin Ortiz (URO).
Today at 4:00 in the afternoon, a heavily armed Oaxaca state police commando unit, along with the police who have the town of Xanica under siege, burst into the house of our indigenous comrade Cesar Luis Días like a bolt from the blue and arrested him without a warrant, disregarding the presence of his three small children.
Comrade Cesar is a member of the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Rights of Santiago Xanica (CODEDI), a council member of the APPO, one of the founders of the AMZ (adherent to the Other Campaign) and member of the Popular Anti-neoliberal Oaxacan Magonista Coordinating Body (COMPA). (en español)
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 April 30, 2007 - Barucha Calamity Peller writes: At approximately 5pm, Radio Universidad in Oaxaca City, Mexico, was re-occupied by sympathizers of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) and students from different departments of the Benito Juarez Autonomous University. With protest songs and political information, the transmissions were initiated to spread information about the different mobilizations planned for the first days of May. May 1st, an international labor holiday, teachers from union section 22, together with other social organizations, will march to the Zocalo in Oaxaca City to protest the continuing governance of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, ousted by popular demand since June of last year.
The radio hosts are asking for support from students and the general public to reinforce the radio installations and take security measures in case of state repression. The radio hosts are saying that the radio and the university will be occupied for the next two days.
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January 17th, 2007 - Manuel Esparza writes in Noticias de Oaxaca: I returned to Oaxaca after a month of self-exile that served to restore my mental health. The inevitable questions about Oaxaca and its governor on the part of my old and new friends in Seville helped me synthesize the seven long months of the conflict. What was happening there, I was repeating, has to be understood within the context of world capitalism in it imperial phase. All of México is immersed in neoliberal economics and to add to the complexity, it is stitched onto a zipper of more than 4,500 kilometers adjoining the United States.
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