The self-declared "autonomous municipality" of San Juan Copala [2] and the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) announced they will hold a national meeting of autonomous municipalities, to take place at the indigenous mountain village September 15-16. APPO also said they will send representatives to the Zapatista Encuentro of the Peoples of America, a summit on indigenous rights to be held at the Yaqui village of Vicam in Sonora state Oct. 11-14. (La Jornada [3], Aug. 17)
See our last posts on Mexico and Oaxaca [4], Sonora [5], and the Zapatista struggle [6].
