Oaxaca City saw another massive mobilization in support of striking teachers yesterday, with an estimated 100,000 marching from the Juarez monument to the Plaza de la Danza, where a political tribunal was held to hear charges against Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. (La Jornada [1], June 8)
In related news, riot police were called in to the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, in Michoacan state, where some 30 buildings are being occupied by student protesters. (La Jornada [2], June 8)
In another act of violence against the Triqui indigenous peoples of Oaxaca, the municipal agent for the hamlets of Llano Aguacate and Copala, in Santiago Juxtlahuaca municipality, Andres Martinez Juarez, was assassinated by unknown gunment June 8. The victim was a prominent member of the Triqui Movement for Unification and Struggle (MULT). His companion Ignacio de Jesus Cruz was also wounded in the ambush on a mountain path, where they were visiting a remote settlement to discuss aid for small coffee-growers. A paramilitary group linked to the PRI political machine, the Union for the Social Welfare of the Triqui Region (UBISORT), is held to be behind the attack. (La Jornada [3], June 8)
All sources online at Chiapas95 [4].
See our last post [5] on Mexico, and the Oaxaca strike [6].
