Another Member of APPO Arrested in the Continuing Struggle for Justice

“The Government Fabricates a Crime and Then Sells the Prisoner his Freedom,” Says the Bishop of Oaxaca About Actions of Government

By Nancy Davies

April 16, 2007

Another APPO member was grabbed on Saturday, April 14. He was with three friends, one of whom was also captured. The two others escaped by jumping into a car.

D.R. 2007 Nancy Davies

On Sunday April 15 I scouted around for info about David Venegas Reyes’ arrest, and was told that he was grabbed while crossing Llano Park by the private police agents who are normally used to guard money transport, banks, and such. The Policia Auxiliar, Bancaria, Industrial and Comercial (Pabic) are not government employees, but private operatives, I would guess without any official standing when it comes to making judicial arrests. In Oaxaca so many different police corps exist that keeping track is not easy, but the heavy duty ones are federal, less heavy the state, below that the city, and below that lurk the private police. And then the private thugs follow along. The official government police appear in plain clothes for dirty work, or in heavy riot gear, or official uniforms with the Mexican insignia on the shoulder. Amazing variety, and as far as I can ascertain, all vicious until one gets down to the tourist cops, who are mostly cute young women giving directions to the museums.
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