Narconews: Davies - Oaxaca Declines to be Governed

Davies: Oaxaca Declines to be "Governed"

Dear Colleague,

Since the creation of the APPO in 2006, the ongoing struggle in Oaxaca has evolved through many different phases and forms. However, always at the heart of the matter is the strong discontent towards the corrupt and oppressive tactics used by the state, and sometimes local, government. Davies, in her ongoing commentary for Narco News, writes about the current state of the Movement in Oaxaca as it once again shifts to another phase:

"Last year in 2006 the state of Oaxaca was clearly ungovernable, although neither the state nor federal authorities would formally so declare, because they could not throw out the governor - the state because the governor's PRI rules all three branches of power; the feds because the weak president Calderón requires the assistance of the PRI. But ungovernability was no secret; unions were on strike, roads were blockaded, government offices were blocked for business, the governor and legislatures went hiding, and the citizens took the streets, while dirty-war arrests, murder and torture shadowed daily life.

"...The APPO as an organized body seems virtually invisible as they struggle to plan ways to confront the government. Some say internal disputes have enervated them. Therefore, with an ongoing and visible lack of governability in Oaxaca, one might indeed agree that the APPO is everything and everybody. Or that ungovernability is due to other causes - perhaps you might say the people do not submit; perhaps you might say it's the ineptitude of the governor and his cronies. Last week URO went to the United States where he was confronted with protests in several cities, including New York Protesters in the street threw tomatoes at the restaurant where URO and other governors were said to be dining."

Read Davies' full Oaxaca commentary online at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2768.html

From somewhere in a country called America,
David B. Briones
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The Narco News Bulletin
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