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Stop the Fascism of the Oaxacan Government!

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…

Xanica Resists

October 30th, 2007 – CODEDI writes: With the imposition of Sergio García Cruz over the town of Santiago Xanica, our community has lived in a state of total ungovernability, withstanding injustices, lies, and manipulation. Only days before assuming the Presidency,…

The lights of Xanica

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.