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Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
Oaxaca de Juárez, January 29, 2012 10:42 pm Rally in support of Autonomy for San Juan Copala Monday, January 30, 5 pm, Cathedral, City of Oaxaca The state government’s false discourse of peace and progress was exposed for what…
This morning, Sunday January 29, 2012, we started out marching from Yosoyuxi towards San Juan Copala, and were stopped once again by more than 200 state riot police after we had gone about 3 kilometers.
At approximately 15:50 this Sunday, January 29, 2012, our comrade David Venegas Reyes was arbitrarily arrested under the direct orders of Jesús Martínez Álvarez, Secretary General of the government of Oaxaca.
On January 28, Bucareli Avenue in front of the Ministry of the Interior was blocked for several hours by displaced indigenous people from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala in the Mixteca mountain range of Oaxaca.
After the caravan of the displaced, members of the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala and members from Yosoyuxi left for San Juan Copala, approximately 200 riot people blocked our way today, January 28, about three kilometers from where we…