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The Uprising of Oaxaca – How Far Can it Go?
Two Issues Must Now Be Resolved: Removal of Governor Ulises Ruiz and Resolution of the Teachers’ Educational Demands
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca
June 24, 2006
OAXACA CITY, June 24, 2006: Oaxaca is a contentious state, with conflicts in towns, on public and communal lands. Assassinations each year number between 20 and 30. The state has 570 municipalities, but in 2004, 750 cases of agrarian conflict.
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) has united the people of Oaxaca – in opposition to him, and to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in its Spanish initials), which has maintained a strangle-hold on Oaxaca for more than seventy years, maintaining caciquismo (the power of local political bosses) and aggravating the agrarian conflicts to divide the people. Selling their votes to the PRI is how towns obtain what should be rightfully theirs, including schools and educational supplies.
The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) has now met three times. Today, June 24, 2006, at the close of the APPO, the general secretary of the Section 22 of the National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), Enrique Rueda Pacheco, held a press conference in which he assured the public that the teachers’ strike will be settled this weekend.
Now the question becomes, can the education demands, which may be settled soon, be separated from the demand for URO to resign?
By all reports, the range of APPO attendees extends from the PRI-affiliated, to the anarchists and revolutionaries on the far left. The APPO declared itself unified by a desire to oust URO. Today’s decisions, beyond Pacheco’s statement, are not yet known.
However, Pacheco announced on Friday, June 23, 2006 that the threatened boycott of the July 2 election won’t happen. That’s a withdrawal of previous threats by the union.
Pacheco announced a new group of mediators for the education negotiations, among them some of the least militant personalities of Oaxaca: artist Francisco Toledo, Archbishop José Luis Chávez Botello, the emeritus bishop of Tehuantepec, and businessman Carlos Guzmán Gardeazábal.
The union refuses to negotiate with Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz or with any federal official of second rank – the union demands talks with somebody who has real power, that is, the Secretary of Government (“Segob,” equivalent to Secretary of Interior), Carlos Abascal Carranza, or somebody equivalent.
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http://narconews.com/Issue42/article1936.html
Commentary from Oaxaca
June 24, 2006
OAXACA CITY, June 24, 2006: Oaxaca is a contentious state, with conflicts in towns, on public and communal lands. Assassinations each year number between 20 and 30. The state has 570 municipalities, but in 2004, 750 cases of agrarian conflict.
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) has united the people of Oaxaca – in opposition to him, and to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, in its Spanish initials), which has maintained a strangle-hold on Oaxaca for more than seventy years, maintaining caciquismo (the power of local political bosses) and aggravating the agrarian conflicts to divide the people. Selling their votes to the PRI is how towns obtain what should be rightfully theirs, including schools and educational supplies.
The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) has now met three times. Today, June 24, 2006, at the close of the APPO, the general secretary of the Section 22 of the National Education Workers’ Union (SNTE), Enrique Rueda Pacheco, held a press conference in which he assured the public that the teachers’ strike will be settled this weekend.
Now the question becomes, can the education demands, which may be settled soon, be separated from the demand for URO to resign?
By all reports, the range of APPO attendees extends from the PRI-affiliated, to the anarchists and revolutionaries on the far left. The APPO declared itself unified by a desire to oust URO. Today’s decisions, beyond Pacheco’s statement, are not yet known.
However, Pacheco announced on Friday, June 23, 2006 that the threatened boycott of the July 2 election won’t happen. That’s a withdrawal of previous threats by the union.
Pacheco announced a new group of mediators for the education negotiations, among them some of the least militant personalities of Oaxaca: artist Francisco Toledo, Archbishop José Luis Chávez Botello, the emeritus bishop of Tehuantepec, and businessman Carlos Guzmán Gardeazábal.
The union refuses to negotiate with Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz or with any federal official of second rank – the union demands talks with somebody who has real power, that is, the Secretary of Government (“Segob,” equivalent to Secretary of Interior), Carlos Abascal Carranza, or somebody equivalent.
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http://narconews.com/Issue42/article1936.html
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