Oaxaca: Protesters beat four police officers, state official
MEXICO CITY
President Vicente Fox's spokesman Friday condemned the beating of four police officers and a state official by protesters in Oaxaca city, the latest violence in a monthslong conflict between officials and striking teachers in the colonial city.
Camera crews captured scenes of the demonstrators kicking, beating and hurling paint on four police officers and a state official on Thursday. Protesters held one of the police officers for several hours and accused him of beating a 16-year-old boy when officers tried to remove demonstrators from a building hours earlier.
They later handed the severely beaten officer over to Red Cross authorities.
"We regret this act of violence. Violence never leads to anything," Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said. "We cannot allow these scenes of which we were all witnesses."
Federal government negotiators have been holding talks with the striking teachers in Mexico City to negotiate an end to the conflict. The protests began in May with a teachers' strike for higher wages but they have ballooned into a political battle and demands for the resignation of Oaxaca State Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
At least 40,000 teachers demanding pay raises have occupied the leafy central plaza of Oaxaca city in a protest that escalated after Ruiz sent police to evict the strikers.
Thousands of leftists, anarchists and students have joined in, burning city buses, erecting hundreds of street barricades and covering buildings with graffiti. Two people have been killed and dozens more injured.
Aguilar said officials are "moderately optimistic" that the problem will be resolved soon.
MEXICO CITY President Vicente Fox's spokesman Friday condemned the beating of four police officers and a state official by protesters in Oaxaca city, the latest violence in a monthslong conflict between officials and striking teachers in the colonial city.
Camera crews captured scenes of the demonstrators kicking, beating and hurling paint on four police officers and a state official on Thursday. Protesters held one of the police officers for several hours and accused him of beating a 16-year-old boy when officers tried to remove demonstrators from a building hours earlier.
They later handed the severely beaten officer over to Red Cross authorities.
"We regret this act of violence. Violence never leads to anything," Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said. "We cannot allow these scenes of which we were all witnesses."
Federal government negotiators have been holding talks with the striking teachers in Mexico City to negotiate an end to the conflict. The protests began in May with a teachers' strike for higher wages but they have ballooned into a political battle and demands for the resignation of Oaxaca State Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
At least 40,000 teachers demanding pay raises have occupied the leafy central plaza of Oaxaca city in a protest that escalated after Ruiz sent police to evict the strikers.
Thousands of leftists, anarchists and students have joined in, burning city buses, erecting hundreds of street barricades and covering buildings with graffiti. Two people have been killed and dozens more injured.
Aguilar said officials are "moderately optimistic" that the problem will be resolved soon.
President Vicente Fox's spokesman Friday condemned the beating of four police officers and a state official by protesters in Oaxaca city, the latest violence in a monthslong conflict between officials and striking teachers in the colonial city.
Camera crews captured scenes of the demonstrators kicking, beating and hurling paint on four police officers and a state official on Thursday. Protesters held one of the police officers for several hours and accused him of beating a 16-year-old boy when officers tried to remove demonstrators from a building hours earlier.
They later handed the severely beaten officer over to Red Cross authorities.
"We regret this act of violence. Violence never leads to anything," Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said. "We cannot allow these scenes of which we were all witnesses."
Federal government negotiators have been holding talks with the striking teachers in Mexico City to negotiate an end to the conflict. The protests began in May with a teachers' strike for higher wages but they have ballooned into a political battle and demands for the resignation of Oaxaca State Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
At least 40,000 teachers demanding pay raises have occupied the leafy central plaza of Oaxaca city in a protest that escalated after Ruiz sent police to evict the strikers.
Thousands of leftists, anarchists and students have joined in, burning city buses, erecting hundreds of street barricades and covering buildings with graffiti. Two people have been killed and dozens more injured.
Aguilar said officials are "moderately optimistic" that the problem will be resolved soon.
MEXICO CITY President Vicente Fox's spokesman Friday condemned the beating of four police officers and a state official by protesters in Oaxaca city, the latest violence in a monthslong conflict between officials and striking teachers in the colonial city.
Camera crews captured scenes of the demonstrators kicking, beating and hurling paint on four police officers and a state official on Thursday. Protesters held one of the police officers for several hours and accused him of beating a 16-year-old boy when officers tried to remove demonstrators from a building hours earlier.
They later handed the severely beaten officer over to Red Cross authorities.
"We regret this act of violence. Violence never leads to anything," Fox's spokesman Ruben Aguilar said. "We cannot allow these scenes of which we were all witnesses."
Federal government negotiators have been holding talks with the striking teachers in Mexico City to negotiate an end to the conflict. The protests began in May with a teachers' strike for higher wages but they have ballooned into a political battle and demands for the resignation of Oaxaca State Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
At least 40,000 teachers demanding pay raises have occupied the leafy central plaza of Oaxaca city in a protest that escalated after Ruiz sent police to evict the strikers.
Thousands of leftists, anarchists and students have joined in, burning city buses, erecting hundreds of street barricades and covering buildings with graffiti. Two people have been killed and dozens more injured.
Aguilar said officials are "moderately optimistic" that the problem will be resolved soon.
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