El Enemigo Común

November 28th, 2006

TO SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL

The unbridled violence against the people organized in the Popular Assembly of the People’s of Oaxaca, is worsening and spreading throughout the state as is evident in the following FACTS:

At approximately 10:00 PM on tuesday the 27th, our compañero Marcos García Macedas, one of the State Councilors for the Committee in Defense of the Right’s of the People, an organization adherent to APPO, was ambushed in the middle of the town of Putla de Guerrero by ministerial police. The compañero’s health is tenuous as a result of four bullet wounds from the barrage fired in his direction.

He is in the hospital, in critical condition, and it is feared that they may try to move him. (en español)

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TO SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL

ULISES RUIZ AND FELIPE CALDERÓN STRIKE HUMAN RIGHTS IN OAXACA WITH THE COUP DE GRÂCE

If by nature the presence of the encampments of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP) in public places and the night patrols of the police forces and paramilitaries was aggressive, now that the patrols are done in the plain of day, this city, declared as a cultural patrimony of humanity, is a true war zone. To Oaxaca citizens, it is now not only that we have been captivated by the right to protest, but that we live in a literal state of siege. The violence in the state is unleashed. The enormous number of vehicles carrying members of the PFP patrolling the city is impressive, in addition to the innumerable personal vehicles without license plates that continue picking up and shooting people. (en español)

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