New Video Available for Download: "Atenco: Breaking the Siege"

June 7, 2006
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Dear Colleague:

A new, outstanding documentary on the May 3 and 4 Atenco incidents
has been released by our friends at Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios:
"Atenco: Romper el Cero," or "Atenco: Breaking the Siege." While
already available on the BitTorrent file sharing network, Narco News
has agreed to use our server to help make this important video more
accessible.

While an English-language version has not yet been released (but the
filmmakers are hard at work with members of our video team on putting
out a subtitled version, which will be posted to Narco News as well
as soon as it becomes available), the images in this 47-minute
documentary speak for themselves. Much of the violence in Atenco was
captured by television cameras, but few outside of Mexico have seen
this footage. The filmmakers present not only the in-the-street shots
of police savagely beating �anything that moved,� but also clips of
the commercial news anchors flagrantly calling out for more
repression of the popular movement from the state. Combined with
Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios� own work investigating the scene in
Atenco and interviewing many of the townspeople, this is a powerful
document of a turning point in Mexican history.

A synopsis from the Canal 6 de Julio website:

"This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the
first days of May, 2006 and denounces the violation of the civilian
population�s human rights by state and federal police forces. The
documentary deconstructs the mass media�s operating methods, which
were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information
blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an
especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential
succession in Mexico."

The film is available for download from this website as a large, high-
resolution AVI video file or broken down into three parts, in lower-
resolution Windows Media and QuickTime formats for faster download.
Watch it here:

http://www.salonchingon.com/cinema/otra_canal6atenco.php?city=ny

From somewhere in a country called Am�rica,

Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com
dan [at] narconews.com