San Juan Copala: Autonomous Triquis want to go home

After 15 days of frustrating, deceitful negotiations, the Gabino Cue government was unwilling to keep its promise of guaranteeing a safe return to their homes.
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After 15 days of frustrating, deceitful negotiations, the Gabino Cue government was unwilling to keep its promise of guaranteeing a safe return to their homes.
Today we merely want to address you to tell you that we are doing everything in our power to find the path to peace through the word and we want to ask for your fraternal solidarity, which you have always shown us, so that today more than ever, the flower of the word does not die.
On Tuesday afternoon David Venegas was released from police custody after his arrest last Sunday.
As a security measure and to avoid the great risk that remaining isolated and out in the open near La Sabana (UBISORT territory), four kilometers from San Juan Copala, represented, the displaced from San Juan Copala, members of the Autonomous Municipality, and solidarity organizations returned to Yosoyuxi near nightfall.
The Caravan to San Juan Copala is advancing, but the Oaxaca state government has definitely abandoned its responsibility to guarantee life and safety to the displaced women returning to their town.
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.