Human Rights Questioned in Oaxaca

Jose Luis Soberanes, chair of the National Human Rights Committee (CNDH), will present a preliminary report on the latest incidents in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

According to CNDH, since the beginning of the conflict in June that territory has reported 349 people arrested, 40 injured, 20 homicides, including the death of a US reporter, nine cases of torture and 25 abdications.

Early December, social organizations and relatives of detained and missing people demanded in front of the UN headquarters the intervention of observers and reporters to end to human rights violations.

They assured that in that southern state the federal police are unfairly and arbitrarily arresting people, including those who do not belong to the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).

Meanwhile, the Secretary of Government and APPO should resume talks on Jan 8 to solve the ongoing conflict.

The education union will assemble in early January to determine if they want to restructure the movement and define their position in the pro-democratization fight.

It assures that unsafe conditions for teachers as well as unpaid salaries persist, which is part of the agreements unfulfilled by the government.