Minute by minute situation in Oaxaca (October 31, 2006) - English

Minute by minute situation in Oaxaca (October 31, 2006)
Theme(s) Médias / Netactivisme - Répression -
01-11-2006 05:10
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Translation of Minute by minute account on CML-DF, all local Mexican times, +7 hours for Swiss times.



22:06 A report come in that on Boulevard when "Venustiano Carranza" Stadium is located, the PFP has evicted a house where the finances of the APPO were financed.

22:03 The PFP continues its advance on "Santo Domingo" and on Radio Universidad de Oaxaca. A call goes out to the population to come and defend both bastions.

21:45 Two reports come in that there are sixty to seventy detainees in the APPO bastion of the atrium of "Santo Domingo", where the people of Oaxaca resist.

21:29 Radio Univesidad de Oaxaca calls for defense of the barricades. The PDF is heading to the university campus and is removing barricades as it goes.

20:05 Reports say the protest continues in Mexico City. The march has stopped in "Chivatito" due to the presence of police from the GDF.

19:08 At the offering mounted at "Cal y Canto", the people rename the barricade "Cal y Canto" to "Barricade Brad Will".

18:53 There are two accounts regarding those detained at the "Parque del Amor": 1) that they are being transfered to Miahuatlán 2) that they are being transfered to La Palma (in this last prison there are three others being detained from the FPDT: felipe ÁLVAREZ, ignacio DEL VALLE MEDINA and Hector GALINDO COCHICOA from Atenco, for the events of 3 and 4 may, when the PFP entered the town; Antonio y Hector CEREZO are also detained there. The dirty war against social fighters continues).

17:17 The General Assembly of Organizations proposes the creation for a large caravan to Oaxaca, if Lopez Obrador, he will not lead the march, he will be one more person.

16:58 The PFP approaches "Santo Domingo" in Oaxaca where the APPO camp is.

16:51 A caravan leaves from Michoacan with 3000 teachers towards Mexico City at 17:00. The teachers say NO to classes. Assaults on caravans are confirmed.

16:40 The merchants of the central plaza in Oaxaca make the PFP responsible for the looting of 37 stores. They state that now things are worse because they can't even open their stores.

16:36 The teachers fail to recognize the accord with the government. There will be no negotiation until the political prisoners are freed, the disappear appear and ask for Ulises Ruiz's head.

16:33 Through political prisoners liberated yesterday, APPO calls to form caravans to go to Oaxaca, entering from Guerrero, Chiapas and the highway.

15:32 Media and people are called to attend the offering at Cal y Canto to remember the dead and ask to diffuse this information on Indymedia. In memory of Brad they ask that photographs be sent to his family, a blanket will be made with his portrait.

15:31 In violation of the right to freedom of transit, the PFP is checking all bags and identification on anyone coming into the central plaza in Oaxaca. If you do not have identification, you are detained. Merchants says things are worse with the PFP there.

13:52 Professor Oliverio Navarrete recounts his assault in the morning at the hands of government forces. He states that thanks to solidarity and support they were rescued.

13:47 Cranes are removing barricades at "Símbolos Patrios" in Oaxaca

13:29 The murdered nurse returns to the earth today in Soldead de Etla, Oaxaca

13:14 Harassment of the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights' offices, graffiti saying "the APPO meets here".

13:07 Brigand neighbors of the Infonavit, first step Ricardo Flores Magñon

13:05 An urgent call is made to celebrate the Day of the Dead tomorrow in the "Santo Domingo" plaza in Oaxaca. They ask to gather 30 sacks of lime and 30 kilos of the following colors: yellow, black, red, blue, green, purple and orange. They also ask to bring many colored and fresh flowers, to call in literary "calaveras" to read on-air, for artists to come in and draw the names of the fallen with sand, and to make offerings at the places were they were assassinated.

13:00 The PFP is detaining people in the central plaza without arrest warrants.

12:32 The PRI-sympathizers have entered the main plaza of the city. The Federal Preventive Police has allowed them pass. And the are threatening all those that pass by, threatening to chase out anyone who creates problems and threatening to rape the women.

12:24 On-air report from Radio Universidad de Oaxaca that indicate that the Federal Preventive Police are insulting women that pass by the streets that are occupied by them.

12:11 Those detained in the Miahuatlán prison are being transfered to Mexico City. It is unknown if the National Commission on Human Rights is following the detained, which are unknown by name and number, although some reports state that up to 300 detainees are being held in Miahuatlán.

12:09 The march is being led by Dr. Perez Bautista. It is know that in the Office of the Secretary of Health is was obligatory to march under penalty of losing the work. Similar reports in the Hospital de Especializades. Of the two blocks of the march, a good amount of the people are forced to march and the other are paramilitaries, protected all by the Federal Preventive Police.

12:08 There is a PFP helicopter in the "Parque del Amor" and a roadblock that is stopping traffic and taking away several people.

12:07 The PFP has a road block near the Tlacolula exit and is turing back APPO sympathizers heading into downtown Oaxaca
11:54 A report that the PRI-sympathizers are attacking the APPO sit-in in Santo Domingo in Oaxaca

11:51 The PRI march, used in the few days by paramilitaries is marching under the protection of the Federal Protective Police. They remove barricades in their path and have detained several people. It is feared that they will assault the APPO sit-in in Santo Domingo and Radio Universitario in Oaxaca. They call it the March of Peace.

11:48 Two protest in Brazil at this moment in solidarity with Oaxaca.

11:38 The PFP is beating people during the eviction of a trench at the intersection of Vigueras, including a cameraman.

11:37 The barricades are being removed at the intersection of Candiani in the city of Oaxaca.

11:35 Reports from the Faculty of the Political and Social Sciences in the National Mexican Autonomous University in Mexico City that it has been voted and approved to strike today in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca. There will be performances, activities and a march through the university. The following UNAM schools are also striking: College of Sciences and Humanities-South, High School 6, CSH Naucalpan and there are blockades outside of the National School of Professional Studies Aragon.

11:20 A report that in "Fraccionamiento Bugambilias de Oaxaca" the PFP is shaking down homes and detaining people.

11:05 The barricade on "Loma de los Coyotes" in the city of Oaxaca is being attacked.

11:03 Reports come in that a contingent of the PRI march is heading to the central plaza, led by violent groups that seek to assault.

11:02 The National Center for Human Rights announced a module on human rights at "Cinco Señores" but it is not there.

11:01 Jorge Pedro Osorio and Sergio Ramírez were detained by the Federal Preventive Police between Yalitlan and Nochixtlan.

10:49 Tomorrow a delegation from Senate's Human Rights Commission will arrive to Oaxaca to verify the human rights violations that the Oaxacan government has committed.

10:48 In "Cinco Señores" the Federal Preventive Police is meeting with government officials from Oaxaca.

10:45 Declaration of the Oaxaca Autonomous University "Benito Juarez" calling for dialogue and negotiation, condemning the use of violence and loss of human life, warning to avoid confrontation and rejecting any armed force incursion onto the campus which would violate the university autonomy.

10:43 The Federal Preventive Police looted 37 stores in the central plaza in Oaxaca. The stores were untouched by the protesting teachers and the APPO during the past months and in fact opened daily to provide their services to the public. The Federal Preventive Police police though destroyed everything, looting food and merchandise. An occupation army looting and destroying.

10:39 In the "Fuente de las Siete Regiones" PRI sympathizers prepare to go and expel the APPO sit-in in "Santo Domingo" carrying sticks and chili pepper-infused water bottles.

10:35 Multiple reports of government workers forcing other workers to assist the march in support of the governor or risk loosing their work. Also reports of outsiders being paid to attend the march. Workers of the State Prosecutors Office and the DIF, family development office are particularly highlighted.

10:34 Ulises Ruiz will be in Zimatlan at 13:00. In contrast the military roadblocks continue all over the state impeding support from within and out of the state to come to the capital of Oaxaca in solidarity with the social movement there.

10:30 Bulldozers arrive in Calicanto in the city of Oaxaca, the barricade is about to be taken.

10:24 The professor Oliverio Navarrete was not detained but assaulted by Judicial Police, who took his cellular phone and let him go. Their objective? To take the telephones numbers of the professor, who is father of one of the hunger strikers in Mexico City, or merely a simple robbery?

10:19 The professor Oliverio Navarrete has ben detained in "Símbolos Patrios"

10:10 Around the State Prosecutor's Office there is a roadblock of Judicial Police robbing people that pass by there. "Synonym of Judicial Police=Thief, to be they must intimidate", declares Radio Universidad on air.

10:01 Today's edition of the newspaper "Noticias de Oaxaca" reports blockades on all the highways in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to demand the departure of the PFP and army from the state. There are also reports that caravans of support to the APPO coming in from different parts of the state towards the capital were stopped by the army, particularly in roadblocks near Tlaxiaco and Tlacolula. This violates the constitutional right to freedom of circulation when there is no state of constitutional exception in the region.
9:58 Planning continues to hold a plenary session of the Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca. Near where it is supposed to take place paramilitaries are stationed.

9:56 The telephones of RUdO continue to be blocked systematically which is offense on the part of the companies to suspend service without justification. It is also an offense for the federal government to block telephones without a court order. But since the assault a SICARTSA and the massacre at Atenco, there has been little respects for legalities by federal officials.

9:55 In La Joya, a barricade falls to the Federal Preventive Police.

9:49 It is announced that the PRI march will head to Radio Universidad of Oaxaca to create a provocation and permit the Federal Preventive Police to raid the station.

9:44 APPO calls through Radio Universidad of Oaxaca to not assault in any way or fall victim to provocations during the PRI march in the next few hours as they march through Oaxaca. They also call for right of way for the march and document on video the events to clarify any possible aggressions.

9:35 There are reports that Daniel Gildardo Mota Figueroa, journalist for the PRI-affiliated newspaper "La Opinion" was detained by federal forces (it is unclear if it was the PFP, AFI or another enforcing the state of siege in Oaxaca). He was detained around 4 am near the airport.

9:28 In the Faculty of the Political and Social Sciences in the National Mexican Autonomous University in Mexico City there is a student strike in solidarity with Oaxaca and against the incursion of the Federal Preventive Police

9:20 There are reports of a PRI march, of ultra-right wing tendencies, which will leave at 11 am from the city of Oaxaca. Affiliated paramilitary groups have supported the state-sponsored terrorism here and the in the last few days have supported the state of siege and the assault on the civil population.

8:00 Last night Oaxaca suffered a de facto curfew, enforced by the Federal Preventive Police and paramilitary groups. The population resisted with barricades. Radio Universidad continues to transmit.

2:26 Radio Universidad continues to transmit from Oaxaca, we hope to start streaming via internet soon.

Early morning: This early morning there is a double dirty game against the Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de la Oaxaca.

On one hand the federal preventive police has been advancing all day towards Radio Universidad. They advance a few meters and then stop. When they stop the paramilitaries threaten to destroy the radio by attacking it. Then the police advance a few more meters towards the radio, threatening to attack it, stop and the paramilitaries continue.
Their objective is two-fold: they obviously seek to attack the station since already last night they cut the electricity to stop the transmission. In the past week, they have thrown acid on the equipment to stop transmission.

The second objective is to perhaps create a clash between the paramilitaries and the federal police, to use then use it as an excuse to attack the APPO, accusing it of aggression against the federal police and then hit with maximum repression and destroy the radio.

It is an uneasy early morning.