Gunmen Attack Oaxaca Student Radio Station

Jul 23, 2:25 PM EDT
By REBECCA ROMERO
Associated Press Writer

OAXACA, Mexico (AP) -- Gunmen attacked Oaxaca's university radio station, authorities said Sunday, the latest incident in a wave of confrontations and protests that have driven many tourists out of this historic Mexican city.

Assailants fired rounds of ammunition into the station's windows while it was broadcasting late Saturday, the Oaxaca state government said. Nobody was hurt in the attack.

Witnesses said the attack was carried out by at least 10 assailants wearing ski masks.

The university radio station has supported a wave of protests aimed at ousting Oaxaca state governor Ulises Ruiz, who is accused of rigging the 2004 election to win office and of violently repressing dissent ...

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Radio Universidad Attacked

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2006/7/23/21854/1627

By Nancy Davies,
Posted on Sun Jul 23rd, 2006 at 02:18:54 AM EST
At 9:15 PM July 22 shouts interrupted on-the-air Radio Universidad - a shout for help, while in the background I could hear the doors being pounded as if someone was trying to smash them, and a women screaming. A male voice managed to shout, “We are being attacked!” There was a sound like glass breaking. Then the station went silent.
Static crackled for about fifteen minutes while I twirled the dial to see if anybody else was paying attention. Silly me. It’s now 10:00 PM. The woman teacher at the microphone is hysterical - the station was populated with women and children for the evening while everyone else was at the people’s guelaguetza in the zocalo. Since the radio station is also used as a collection area for food and supplies, for not only the teachers but now also for the guelaguetza people who have come in from the countryside, there were many elderly women and children in the building.

The single cry for help that made it onto the air brought people from the neighboring streets, but the students and people inside managed to beat back the attackers.

With the station back on the air, the men now speaking are wild - apparently the teachers’ Radio Plantón also picked up the alarm - a man at the microphones is screaming for SNTE people from every state to come - the immediate danger is over but the adrenalin is understandably racing.


The men on air identify the attackers as thugs brought in by three “camionetas”, about 25 “paramilitares” carrying “cartuchos”. The arms are the type used only by the military, that is, high powered automatic weapons.
Nobody was shot.

The movement people claim to have a video of the vehicles that the attackers used, one a bus, license plate 410 of public transport, one a white vehicle with plate number 25. The third vehicle is not identified.

“How could they come to attack a place where there are children?” These words after the recovery are all broadcast at panic level - “we are going to die here in Radio Universidad.”, meaning they will die before they give up the struggle.

The announcing voices keep changing as various people arrive. Urgent request: come to help, all society and civil organizations, to reinforce the zocalo and the radio station. Heliodoro Díaz Escárrega (secretary of government) and Jorge Franco Vargas (Ruiz’s, security director) puppets of Ruiz, have tried to murder youngsters at the university.”

“Here are people to defend Radio Universidad, but maybe it’s a decoy to invade the zocalo ... be careful, go to the zocalo, heads of families. We don’t need any more of this...we need your presence.”

Secetary General of SNTE Enrique Rueda Pacheco asked for reinforcements, someone else shouted that police patrols are on the road, “everyone go out into the streets to defend ourselves”.

The level of rage is very high, along with the demand for Ruiz to be removed for attempts against their lives. A student broadcaster denounced, “The federal government, (Fox has accepted Ruiz’ assurance that absolutely nothing has been happening in Oaxaca) is also responsible for not paying attention to the situation.

Zaachilla, one of the towns whose palacio was taken over two days ago by movement people, is attending the guelaguetza and somebody arrived at the radio station. He is shouting that Zaachila is “presente” to defend the people and the station -

There are now several thousand people gathered outside the station - it’s now 75 minutes after attack - people are asked to mobilize in the zocalo. All the radio voices are urgent and agitated. “It is urgent right now to have the removal of powers!” referring to the three branches of Oaxaca’s stae government, all of which are controlled by Ruiz.

At 11:35 PM people are advised to buy flashlights and batteries, and stay alert. The Director of the Faculty of Law arrived at the station and in a calm voice condemned Ruiz and Heliodoro Díaz Escárrega whom he said is directly responsible for the attacks, and then he denounced the violence perpetrated at the university. It was announced that a press conference with the Rector of the University is scheduled for Sunday July 23 at 11:00 AM. At noon there’ll be another press conference, this one with the People’s Assembly.

Felipe Calderón and Ulises Ruiz are meeting right now, another announcer informs us, in Huatulco (Oaxaca’s rich kid playground on the coast) where Calderon is vacationing.

At midnight the station is settling into sequential denunciations and announcements of emergency meetings for the morning, and of the various calls received from around the state where towns are on alert.

The announcer, now a woman, thanks everyone for their incredible support, and says, “It’s calm.” So I’m going to bed, with the hope that no more bad events happen, and that I can sleep, because that adrenalin rage is contagious.

free speech zones and rigged elections.

The Popular Assembly lodges legal denunciation of Governor Ruiz
By Nancy Davies,
Posted on Sat Jul 22nd, 2006 at 10:54:42 AM EST
Acting as alternative government of the state of Oaxaca, the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) has moved on the legal front to oust the governor of the state. On June 21 the nine-page legal complaint was handed to the national Congress.
Based on the Constitution of the United States of Mexico, APPO issued its formal denunciation of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. The denunciation calls for revocation of his post as Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca.


The call for Ruiz’ removal was composed and signed by seventy-two civil organizations, and members of CIESAS, the top-ranked institute for the study of society and anthropology in Mexico. It was handed to the legislature of Mexico on July 16, one month after the governor ordered a pre-dawn attack on sleeping teachers from the teachers union Section 22. Some teachers were accompanied by children and family members in their encampment in the zocalo of Oaxaca City. The attack was made by police supported by helicopters firing tear gas canisters.
Within days the teachers’ strike had changed into a state-wide popular social movement, with its single demand the removal of Governor Ruiz. Ruiz is a member of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico, the PRI, which has controlled Oaxaca for more than seventy-five years.

The denunciation is being circulated to the national and foreign press. Meanwhile, outbreaks of the struggle to control town governments continue throughout the state. On July 20 the blockade and occupation of the government buildings for the legislature, juridical offices, and executive offices of Oaxaca organized by APPO were carried out.

HE ALSO HAS A TINY ORGASM WHEN HIS THUGS AND HOOLIGANS RAPE A FEW NUNS--- AND THEN DISEMBOWEL AND KILL THEM

of terrorism far too long. He and his masters should be exposed completely.





Poster commemorates US ambassador to Honduras John Negroponte, 1981 to 1985.

According to The New York Times, John Negroponte was responsible for "carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan administration to crush the Sandinistas government in Nicaragua." Critics say that during his ambassadorship, human rights violations in Honduras became systematic.

are always the first to choose repressive violence (IMHO).

Take a look at the world today.