Oaxaca: Pronuncement of the National Meeting of Civil Organizations

Wednesday, October 25 2006 @ 12:38 PM PD

North AmericaIn the National Meeting of Civil Organizations, celebrated in the city of México from the 20th to the 22th of October in the present year, 81 organizations participated from 23 states of the republic, and we desire to publish the following :

* The grave political and social conflict in which the state of Oaxaca is living descends from at least three decades of injuries to the population of Oaxaca, from whence the violent and reperessive action of the state has brought together the society in a single demand: the rejection of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz as governor of the State. This demand has provoked the illegal arrest of directors, armed attacks on pacific demonstrations, the installation of armed forces on Oaxaca territory, the torture and assassination of sympathizers and members of the popular movement, including the intimidation of personalities such as Maestro Francisco Toledo, whose house was shot at the morning of Saturday, October 21. All these have generated a climate of anxiety and psychological terror in the population during the past four months.
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