By Jessica Cecilia Martínez/correspondent and Guadalupe Gómez Q.
Oaxaca, Oax., April 8, 08 (CIMAC).- Teresa Bautista and Felicitas Martínez, 22 and 20 years old respectively, reporters and announcers for the community radio La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence) of the popular government of San Juan Copala, were killed in an ambush yesterday at Llano Juárez on the highway from Joya del Mamey to Putla de Guerrero, as they were traveling by car to the state capital along with several other people.
Wounded in the attack were Faustino Vásquez Martínez, the official in charge of Vital Statistics at Juxtlahuaca and a militant in the Social Welfare Unit of the Triqui Region (UBISORT); his 22 year-old wife Cristina Flores; and his children Agustín Gustavo and Jaciel Vásquez Flores, age 2 and 3, according to information provided by state judicial authorities and the Center for Community Support Working Together (CACTUS).
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On April 7th, 2008, two indigenous Triqui women who worked at the community radio station La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The Voice that Breaks the Silence), in the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala (Mixteca region), were shot and murdered while on their way to Oaxaca City to participate in the State Forum for the Defense of the Rights of the Peoples of Oaxaca. Three other people were injured.
According to the state attorney general, the victims are Teresa Bautista Merino (24 years old) and Felícitas Martínez Sánchez (20 years old). Francisco Vásquez Martínez (30 years old), his wife Cristina Martínez Flores (22 years old), and their son Jaciel Vásquez Martínez (three years old) were also injured in the attack.
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TO THE INDEPENDENT SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE PEOPLES’ MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES
TO THE CIVIL GROUPS, COLLECTIVES, AND DEMOCRATIC UNIONS
TO THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
The brutal, systematic repression of the Mexican State against the movements for social transformation keeps on happening throughout the country, and in our state the situation is extremely serious.
The dominant classes and the big transnational interests maintain a mediocre political class and institutions that aim to do away with citizens’ rights, criminalizing all social protest. The exercise of constitutional rights in Mexico and in Oaxaca is now a crime. In order to grant even more privileges to a handful of economic interests, there are no holds barred on state terrorism.
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INFORMATIONAL BULLETIN:
TO THE NEWS MEDIA
TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
The misgovernments of Calderon in Mexico and Ulises Ruiz in Oaxaca are bent on maintaining their mechanisms of systematic repression and permanent violations of human rights and constitutional guarantees. They’ve proved this through processes of indiscriminate aggression against the community life of different indigenous peoples in Oaxaca and other parts of the country, and the situation is getting increasingly worse.
Their power strongholds breed policies of robbery and plunder, as well as violence. In them, many public functionaries who are obedient to very particular political or economic interests maintain relationships with corrupt authorities, local power bosses, or sinister individuals; consequently, corruption continues to grow inside the institutions and government structures.
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Last February 6, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the ministerial police of the State of Oaxaca detained Pedro Sánchez Antonio, the indigenous representative of the Chinanteca community El Pípila of the municipality of San Juan Mazatlán, Oaxaca. Compañero Pedro is a member and a delegate of the Union of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Isthmus (UCIZONI) of Oaxaca. He was charged with the offenses of plunder and abuse of authority, supposedly committed against the political boss Carmelo Pérez, who was expelled from the region by campesinos in 2005.
On February 7, at 8:00 a.m. Dora Ávila Betancourt was arrested in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, by several heavily armed men. Dora was taking her daughter to school when they detained her, saying that they had an arrest order for damage to a highway that occurred in 2006, a charge that was previously dropped for lack of proof. Dora is 48 years old and has spent 20 years working in indigenous rural communities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. She has been a member of UCIZONI, and is now a Human Rights Adviser for Rural Women.
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via el Centro de Medios Independientes, Chiapas
Oaxaca, 18 al 20 de mayo de 2007 - Nueva Tenochtitlan, Oaxaca: El pasado fin de semana se realizó el Encuentro Nacional de las Resistencias de los Pueblos. Contó con la participación de decenas de comunidades que resisten a los megaproyectos que pretenden imponerse ilegalmente en México, sin la consulta debida a pueblos y comunidades indígenas que serían afectados.
El Encuentro inició el viernes 18 de mayo, con un Encuentro sobre la Lucha de las Mujeres.
El sábado y domingo se realizaron los trabajos del Encuentro Nacional con 4 mesas, cuyos resolutivos se resumieron en la Declaración de Nueva Tenochtitlan.
Artículos: Convocatoria al Encuentro || Crónica del encuentro
Audio: Declaración de Nueva Tenochtitlán || Entrevista con el Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos, CACTUS || Entrevista con la Unión de Comunidades Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo (UCIZONI) || Entrevista con la Red de Radios Indígenas del Sureste de México
Fotos: Logo || mantas || perspectivas || Programa impreso || La fiesta || mesas || Paisajes || Cactus
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9 de Mayo de 2007 - escribe por Ricardo García J/Roger Valle: Huajuapan de León Oaxaca.
Un fuerte enfrentamiento se dio en la mañana de este día entre taxistas pertenecientes a las organizaciones del Frente Nacional Indígena y Campesino (FNIC) y Frente Nacional Indígena y Campesino Democrático afiliados a la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de la Mixteca (FNIC-D-APOMIX) dejando como resultado tres unidades de automotor dañadas y una persona lesionada de nombre Celerino Leyva Ramírez, integrante del FNIC-D.
En entrevista José Luís Oropeza Hernández, presidente del frente nacional indígena y campesino democrático (FNIC-D-APPOMIX) dijo que un grupo de aproximadamente 20 personas pertenecientes al FNIC-D encabezados por Gerardo Salazar Méndez, Jaime Martínez Gordillo, Ciro Pedrosa Guadarrama y Jerónimo Sosa Maceda golpearon brutalmente a Celerino Leyva Ramírez.
Oropeza Hernández mencionó que Leyva Ramírez fue interceptado por el grupo de individuos citado más arriba, que lo obligaron a salir de su vehículo para después de golpearlo y arrastraron por el arroyo vehicular, para que posteriormente huyeran corriendo por diversas calles de la ciudad de Huajuapan. Instantes después los choferes pertenecientes a FNIC-D – APPOMIX respondieron a dicha agresión que recibió Leyva Ramírez.
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