[Milton]

August 19, 2006<br /> <br /> Pentagon Orders US Special Forces To Mexican Oil Fields<br /> As Revolution Looms<br /> <br /> by<br /> (Name withheld for protection of the author)<br /> <br /> Russian Military Analysts are reporting today that the United States Military Leaders have ordered an ‘advisory contingent’ of American Special Forces Officers to Mexico in order to prepare their Mexican counterparts for an expected siege upon Mexico’s vast oil fields, and which provides to the US its second largest amount of imported oil after Canada.<br /> <a href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html">US Imports</a><br /> <br /> The actions being taken by the Americans is in response to the growing rebellion in Mexico over the stealing of its Presidential election by its present government and backed by US corporate interests, and which fear a leftist controlled Mexican government would break away from its present orbit around the United States Empire.<br /> <br /> Every day on its present march towards outright Civil War sees new escalations in this present conflict, and which today has seen the Mexican Government protecting their government buildings, and as we can read as reported by New Zealand’s NZTV News Service in their article titled "Mexican riot police seal Congress", and which says:<br /> <br /> "Hundreds of riot police in black body armour sealed Congress with roadblocks and a metal wall on Tuesday to keep leftist protesters away after a violent clash over Mexico's disputed presidential election. Federal police took control of all the streets around Congress in a show of force to prevent protesters from blockading the building ahead of President Vicente Fox's state of the nation speech there in two weeks time.<br /> <br /> About 15 legislators from the left-wing party whose presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, narrowly lost the July 2 election were among those hurt on Monday when police tore down tents in their partially built camp, tear gassed protesters and drove them back with clubs."<br /> <br /> Though the violence against those rebelling against the theft of the Mexican Presidential election is increasing they have likewise warned that their efforts will not cease, and as we can read as reported by the BBC News Service in their article titled 'Siege' warning to Mexico rival", and which says:<br /> <br /> "Supporters of Mexico's left-wing presidential candidate have pledged to place his rival "under siege" if he is declared winner of the disputed poll. A spokesman for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's party said Felipe Calderon would not be able to operate outside his office if he was made president."<br /> <br /> Perhaps most importantly about these events, and as we have previously noted many times, is that the American people themselves are not allowed to know about these events by their Military Controlled Propaganda Media Organs, and as we can see evidenced by Britain’s Guardian Unlimited News Service in their article titled 'People power' is a global brand owned by America", and which says:<br /> <br /> "A couple of years ago television, radio and print media in the west just couldn't get enough of "people power". In quick succession, from Georgia's rose revolution in November 2003, via Ukraine's orange revolution a year later, to the tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan and the cedar revolution in Lebanon, 24-hour news channels kept us up to date with democracy on a roll.<br /> <br /> Triggered by allegations of election fraud, the dominoes toppled. The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, was happy with the trend: "They're doing it in many different corners of the world, places as varied as Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan and, on the other hand, Lebanon ... And so this is a hopeful time."<br /> <br /> But when a million Mexicans try to jump on the people-power bandwagon, crying foul about the July 2 presidential elections, when protesters stage a vigil in the centre of the capital that continues to this day, they meet a deafening silence in the global media. Despite Mexico's long tradition of electoral fraud and polls suggesting that Andrés Manuel López Obrador - a critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) - was ahead, the media accepted the wafer-thin majority gained by the ruling party nominee, Harvard graduate Felipe Calderón.<br /> <br /> Although Mexico's election authorities rejected López Obrador's demand for all 42m ballots to be recounted, the partial recount of 9% indicated numerous irregularities. But no echo of indignation has wafted to the streets of Mexico City from western capitals."<br /> <br /> The greatest tragedy of these present events in Mexico, though, rests with it being yet another reminder of how the once mighty and great peoples of the United States have truly fallen from their once idealized status as the defenders of freedom to that being the suppressors of freedom, and in an irony not to be lost upon any of us, have surrendered their own freedoms and liberties without showing the courage of their Mexican neighbors who today are fighting, and dying, so that their Nation could remain free.<br /> <br /> <br /> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /> La Voz de Aztlan<br /> Website: <a href="http://www.aztlan.net">www.aztlan.net</a>

[Milton]

<b>This is revolution... and no way back</b>.<br /> <br /> 10 radiostations and 2 TV stations have now been taken over. Sometimes laborours are staying to help them with the transmissions.<br /> The whole city of Oaxaca is blocked and traffic to-and-from is practically impossible. The takenover busses were used to block streets and sometimes set to fire, making it difficult to remove them.<br /> <br /> The Mexican government can now negotiate as the central org APPO asks for, but that will be a blunder for them. A military action however, will incend the whole state of Oaxaca and subsequently spark over to the city of Mexico. And doing nothing and wait..?<br /> <br /> This is from <a href="http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2006/08/38394.shtml">Indymedia</a>

[Milton]

August 23, 2006<br /> Please Distribute Widely<br /> <br /> Dear Colleague,<br /> <br /> The revolutionary actions and resultant state repression in the<br /> Mexican state of Oaxaca continue to escalate. In the wake of the<br /> violent expulsion of the popular movement from the occupied Channel 9<br /> state television facilities, the people have seized at least ten<br /> commercial radio stations and converted them into popular<br /> communications media. In the neighborhoods surrounding these stations<br /> and other parts of Oaxaca City, residents have, in many cases<br /> spontaneously and without organized leadership, barricaded the<br /> streets and organized their own security patrols.<br /> <br /> Correspondent James Daria reports from one of these neighborhoods:<br /> <br /> "At night, wandering through the blockade, this reporter was able to<br /> witness the birth of not simply just another roadblock but the birth<br /> of social and community consciousness among neighbors, friends and<br /> family. The small numbers of teachers were aided by local residents<br /> who joined the encampment, making up the majority of the people.<br /> Women brought food and drink to the protesters and children ran<br /> throughout the occupied streets free of traffic. The atmosphere was<br /> one of a radical block party and an excuse to socialize with one<br /> another. Walking further I bumped into my two of my neighbors who<br /> brought hot coffee. We walked through the encampment and met up with<br /> other neighbors, friends and family.<br /> <br /> "Walking back to the house to make more coffee, the first reports of<br /> police attacks against encampments at other antennas began to be<br /> heard on the many radios. Fireworks began to sound throughout the<br /> city. One bang means alert, two bangs mean we are being attacked. We<br /> returned to our block together for security. Leaving the pots and<br /> pans in the house, the neighbors grabbed sticks, broom handles and<br /> metal rods. As they armed themselves with homemade weapons of self<br /> defense, they hatched a plan to ring the church bell.<br /> <br /> "The ragged group of instant revolutionaries roamed the streets of<br /> the neighborhood as we discussed why resistance to the state<br /> government was so important. My neighbor, a housewife who is<br /> originally from the coast and is raising four children alone while<br /> husband is away working in the United States, talked as she walked<br /> towards the church with stick in hand. 'All of us here have been<br /> fucked over in one way or another by the government,' the mother<br /> explained. The other family, made up of parents and two daughters-one<br /> of whom was eight months pregnant but armed with a stick and a<br /> shopping bag filled with rocks, reiterated their commitment to defend<br /> their neighborhood. 'We are poor. We are the people,' was the common<br /> sentiment. 'We poor people have nothing to lose, the rich do.'"<br /> <br /> Follow this remarkable story, with new updates daily, on this special<br /> page of The Narco News Bulletin:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/oaxaca/en.html">Narco News</a><br /> <br /> From somewhere in a country called América,<br /> <br /> Dan Feder<br /> Managing Editor<br /> The Narco News Bulletin

[Milton]

August 24, 2006<br /> Please Distribute Widely<br /> <br /> Dear Colleague,<br /> <br /> The daily Por Esto! of the Yucatan peninsula, the third-most-read<br /> newspaper in Mexico, was attacked over the course of two days this<br /> week, with guns, grenades and Molotov cocktails. Por Esto! has played<br /> an important role in the history of Narco News, and is a shining<br /> example of what "authentic journalism" really means. Now, its<br /> reporters, who refuse to give up their valiant work, are in danger.<br /> Al Giordano has the story:<br /> <br /> "On Tuesday, August 22, in Mérida, a Molotov cocktail thrown at a<br /> reporter's wife as she was exiting a car engulfed her 1980 Volkswagen<br /> beetle instantly in flames. She escaped unharmed.<br /> <br /> "On Wednesday night, armed gunmen attacked the paper's Cancún offices<br /> shooting bullets and exploding two grenades at the door. Eighty<br /> journalists, pressmen and other workers were inside the offices at<br /> the hour of the attack; none were seriously wounded.<br /> <br /> "Por Esto!'s publisher, Mario Menéndez Rodríguez (victorious co-<br /> defendant with Narco News in the 2001 drug war on trial case in the<br /> New York Supreme Court) and his team of authentic journalists have<br /> afflicted so many powerful interests with investigative reporting 365<br /> days a year that the list of suspects with motive and means to attack<br /> the daily is large.<br /> <br /> "However, in today's edition, the newspaper accused the organization<br /> of narco-trafficker Ismael Zambada, known as 'El Mayo' who the paper<br /> recently reported as responsible for the assassination of a two<br /> police chiefs (in Cancún and in Playa del Carmen) and also an anti-<br /> drug prosecutor, as responsible for the Cancún attack...<br /> <br /> "Among those most exposed by Por Esto!'s reports have been<br /> politicians and businessmen that are key players in the Fox<br /> administration: Yucatán Governor Patricio Patrón Laviada, Citigroup-<br /> Banamex board member Roberto Hernández Ramírez, and, most recently,<br /> Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). Since the July 2<br /> presidential election in Mexico, Por Esto! has reported the details<br /> of election fraud, while also publishing the entire texts of protest<br /> speeches delivered in Mexico City by candidate Andrés Manuel López<br /> Obrador."<br /> <br /> Read the full story in <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.narconews.com">The Narco News Bulletin:"</a><br /> <br /> From somewhere in a country called América,<br /> <br /> Dan Feder<br /> Managing Editor<br /> The Narco News Bulletin

[Milton]

August 28, 2006<br /> Please Distribute Widely<br /> <br /> Dear Colleague,<br /> <br /> The repressive response of Oaxaca's government to the popular<br /> uprising against its corrupt rule has become more and more violent.<br /> Last week, State Attorney General Lizbeth Caña Cadeza made a<br /> statement to the press in which she called the Popular Assembly of<br /> the People of Oaxaca (APPO) - a nonviolent movement made up of<br /> teachers, families, doctors, farmers and thousands of ordinary<br /> Oaxacan citizens - an "urban guerrilla group." As Diego Enrique<br /> Osorno reports today in The Narco News Bulletin, this was no verbal<br /> slip-up, but rather the unveiling of the state's new<br /> counterinsurgency strategy for dealing with the widening opposition<br /> movement.<br /> <br /> Enrique Osorno writes about the August 22 murder of Lorenzo San Pablo<br /> Cervantes (which was reported in Narco News when it happened):<br /> <br /> "And so, what happened early in the morning of August 22 turned out<br /> not to be an isolated incident, but rather part of a government<br /> strategy to stop the growth of the Assembly, where more than 400<br /> social and political organizations (including the teachers' union)<br /> have come together to demand that Governor Ulises Ruíz, of the<br /> Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), resign.<br /> <br /> "In addition to hired gunmen, troops from the State Ministerial<br /> Police, the Federal Preventive Police and the local municipal police<br /> are all involved in implementing 'Operation Clean-Up.' A Mexican Army<br /> deserter by the name of Aristeo López Martínez is, working out of a<br /> municipal office, one of the principal participants in this operation<br /> inspired by the 'Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare'<br /> manual, written by the CIA in the 1980s for the Nicaraguan 'contras'<br /> in their war against the democratic government of that country.<br /> <br /> "...Coincidentally or not, in the last few days several events have<br /> occurred that recall the CIA manual. Five leaders of the dissident<br /> Assembly - one of whom is disabled - have been detained under unclear<br /> circumstances. Three youths were also able to sabotage the<br /> transmissions from Radio Universidad, the first station that APPO had<br /> under its control. Upon being interviewed, the saboteurs acknowledged<br /> having received payment 'from someone from the PRI' to infiltrate an<br /> opposition brigade and carry out the counterinsurgency action."<br /> <br /> Enrique Osorno's report is accompanied by José Alberto Cruz'<br /> photographs of heavily armed paramilitary forces in unmarked pickup<br /> trucks from the morning of August 22. Alberto Cruz and other<br /> journalists at the scene came under fire from the gunmen.<br /> <br /> Read the full report, only in The Narco News Bulletin's special<br /> coverage of the ongoing Oaxaca revolution.<br /> <br /> http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/oaxaca/en.hml<br /> <br /> Also, don't miss the latest commentary from Nancy Davies in Oaxaca<br /> City. Davies writes of the "battle of Oaxaca" in the context of the<br /> nation-wide post-electoral crisis that Mexico faces:<br /> <br /> "The second big truth is that plans are going forward to support the<br /> national 'revolution' - whatever form that may take. With 'two<br /> presidents,' AMLO may find his firmest base in the south. I was<br /> chatting with my pediatrician yesterday (he also does gerontology)<br /> and asked him flat out if he thought a civil war might come to pass.<br /> This guy is moderate in his views, a doctor with youngsters attending<br /> private universities. And he answered yes. In my personal poll of<br /> unimportant persons, that view was repeated by several people,<br /> including members of APPO. There's a lot of nervous anxiety,<br /> especially because of repeated reports of troops and further attacks.<br /> APPO's official take on it, reported on the radio, is that everything<br /> now depends on how the feds respond to the contradictions in Oaxaca,<br /> not least of which is APPO simultaneously asking for and rejecting<br /> federal intervention - to take out URO, to take out the federal<br /> military, to agree to the removal of URO before any negotiation can<br /> take place, and anyway, who can negotiate? Not URO, he's the 'ex.'<br /> That leaves the Secretary of Government (or Secretary of the<br /> Interior, if you prefer the US analogy), Carlos Abascál Carranza,<br /> arriving in Oaxaca to talk with the former bishop of Chiapas, Samuel<br /> Ruiz. Whoops, that's over. No mediation group can take on the task,<br /> it's impossible. Okay, APPO will talk to the Department of the<br /> Interior directly."<br /> <br /> Davies also writes about a disturbing new website, "Oaxaca in<br /> Peace" (oaxacaenpaz.org.mx), which provides photos and home addresses<br /> of alleged APPO members. Those who have been killed already feature a<br /> red X drawn over their faces. According to the APPO, this online,<br /> public "hit list" was created with government support.<br /> <br /> Don't miss one chapter in this continuing story:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/oaxaca/en.hml">Narco News</a><br /> <br /> From somewhere in a country called América,<br /> <br /> Dan Feder<br /> Managing Editor<br /> The Narco News Bulletin<br /> http://www.narconews.com<br /> dan@narconews.com

[4Canada]

More on this:<br /> <br /> Mexico Leftist to Create Parallel Gov't<br /> By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer<br /> <br /> Tuesday, August 29, 2006<br /> <br /> (08-29) 14:12 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- <br /> <br /> <br /> Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon.<br /> <br /> <br /> While his party lacks the seats in Congress to block legislation, Lopez Obrador can mobilize millions to pressure his conservative rival to adopt the left's agenda — or to clamp down and risk a backlash.<br /> <br /> <br /> Both scenarios are possibilities as the former Mexico City mayor lays out plans to create his own government to rule from the streets, with the support of thousands who are already occupying protest camps throughout downtown Mexico City.<br /> <br /> <br /> Some predict his parallel initiative — which Lopez Obrador's supporters call the "legitimate government" — could turn those protest camps into the core of a violent revolt, especially if the government tries to shut it down.<br /> <br /> <br /> Such violence broke out in the southern city of Oaxaca after Gov. Ulises Ruiz sent police to evict striking teachers. Outraged citizens' groups joined the protests, setting fire to buildings and public buses, seizing radio and TV stations and forcing the closure of businesses in a city known throughout the world as a quaint tourist destination.<br /> <br /> <br /> "Everything we do, from property taxes to permits to natural resources, will go through the 'legitimate government,'" said Severina Martinez, a school teacher from Oaxaca camped out in a tent in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza. "We won't have anything to do with the official government."<br /> <br /> <br /> Some supporters took out a newspaper ad Tuesday, calling on Lopez Obrador to set up his own treasury department and said all Mexicans "should channel federal revenues to the new treasury department."<br /> <br /> <br /> Lopez Obrador is encouraging his followers to disobey Calderon, whose 240,000-vote advantage was confirmed Monday by the country's top electoral court. The seven magistrates stopped short of declaring Calderon president-elect, but they have only a week to declare a winner or annul the election.<br /> <br /> <br /> "We do not recognize Felipe Calderon as president, nor any officials he appoints, nor any acts carried out by his de-facto government," Lopez Obrador said after the court ruling, which he claims overlooked evidence of fraud in the July 2 elections.<br /> <br /> <br /> Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, increased its number of congressional seats in those elections and became the second-largest bloc, behind Calderon's National Action Party, on Tuesday as new lawmakers were sworn in.<br /> <br /> <br /> But it holds only a quarter of the seats — not enough to block legislation, especially if Calderon forges a likely alliance with the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. That alliance would hold a majority in each house of Congress.<br /> <br /> <br /> Lopez Obrador has ruled out negotiations with what he calls the "spurious" and "imposed" government. Because PRD legislators fear crossing him or his fervent followers, they can't cut deals to get their own legislation approved, making them even weaker.<br /> <br /> <br /> "There is no possibility that we federal legislators in Congress will start any dialogue with the government," said PRD Senate leader Carlos Navarette, considered one of the party's moderates. "We will never forget that the leader and director of the Mexican people's action and the left is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador."<br /> <br /> <br /> Lopez Obrador's plan is to have his government help the poor, oppose privatizations and make the news media — which he has accused of ignoring him — more "truthful and objective."<br /> <br /> <br /> It's not clear how he plans to do that, but his supporters are already planning to hold an alternative swearing in ceremony to rival the official inauguration on Dec. 1.<br /> <br /> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/29/international/i141204D66.DTL&type=politics

[Milton]

Thanks for the informative post 4Canada.

[Milton]

“Taxi Driver Sentinels” Now Patrol the Streets of Mérida as Another Mexican State – Yucatán – Heads Toward Social Conflict<br /> <br /> By Al Giordano<br /> Special to The Narco News Bulletin<br /> <br /> September 4, 2006<br /> <br /> A poor, largely indigenous Mexican state known internationally for its ancient ruins, traditional cuisine, and other tourist attractions… a repressive governor that protects organized crime and narco-traffickers… a crusading daily newspaper in a historic capital city that exposes him… as repeated violent attacks against that newspaper and its reporters spark citizens to defend it, assuming the job that the government won’t do… The story sounds eerily familiar. But the state is Yucatán. Its capital is Mérida. The newspaper is Por Esto! And the governor who is playing with fire is Patricio Patrón Laviada.<br /> <br /> <br /> Unexploded fragmentation grenade in the Por Esto! offices<br /> Photo: D.R. 2006 Por Esto!<br /> On Friday morning, September 1, attackers tossed two fragmentation grenades into the lobby of the daily Por Esto!, a newspaper known to Narco News readers whose publisher, Mario Menéndez Rodríguez was our victorious co-defendant in the 2001 Drug War on Trial case. It is a busy lobby frequented by journalists, pressmen, receptionists, secretaries, delivery staff, advertisers, news sources and representatives of every strata of Civil Society (your correspondent has stood there hundreds of times). One of the grenades exploded, splintering the front desk, shattering glass doors, and breaking the time-card clock which now immortalizes the hour of the attack: 7:25 a.m. Security guards and staff in the adjacent room were wounded by flying shards of glass and temporarily deafened by the sound of the explosion. Fortunately, no one was in the lobby, because this kind of grenade is a weapon designed to kill. The other grenade failed to explode. Soldiers of the Mexican Army, experts in explosives, successfully removed it and detonated it in an isolated field.<br /> <br /> <br /> Ricardo Delfín Quezada Domínguez<br /> Photo: D.R. 2006 Por Esto!<br /> It was the third violent attack against Por Esto! reporters in eight days, the second in the city of Mérida, and the latest in a long string of attempts to silence the press on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. However, this time, the guilty parties overplayed their hand. In lieu of pursuing the perpetrators, who escaped in a blue Explorer van, the state attorney general (handpicked by the governor) went and rounded up an anthropology professor and collaborator with the newspaper, Ricardo Delfín Quezada Domínguez of the Autonomous University of Yucatán, and in a mockery of justice detained him for the crime. “He’s my brother!” don Mario told Narco News as the professor was being interrogated in jail. “This is the man who has denounced all the environmental crimes by the government and its oil company!”<br /> <br /> Read the rest of this article at <a href="http://www.narconews.com">Narco News</a>.

[Milton]

September 19, 2006<br /> Please Distribute Widely<br /> <br /> Dear Colleague,<br /> <br /> "I'll just offer an observation," writes Nancy Davies in her latest<br /> commentary from Oaxaca for Narco News, "which is that Oaxaca state is<br /> now governed by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO<br /> in its Spanish initials), not the PRI."<br /> <br /> As Mexicans everywhere celebrated their country's Independence Day<br /> this weekend, Oaxaca remained in suspense as both sides of the<br /> conflict - the vast majority of the people, and a hated governor<br /> surrounded by his few supporters - asked the federal government to do<br /> something. This has included negotiations between movement leaders<br /> and Santiago Creel (currently head of the National Action Party's<br /> Senate delegation, best remembered for his role in the coup-like<br /> "desafuero" against Andrés Manuel López Obrador while he was<br /> President Fox's interior secretary). All Creel's offers so far have<br /> been rejected by the people as bribery, as have offers for a<br /> resolution from the current interior secretary, Carlos Abascal.<br /> <br /> Davies writes:<br /> <br /> "My crystal ball says Calderón will let Oaxaca go by default, in<br /> order to keep up his pretense of governing the nation. Units of the<br /> Mexican Army from the 57th Infantry Battalion, whose base is in<br /> Pinotepa Nacional, a southwestern city, have been sighted around the<br /> state in mountain areas since August 21. In the municipality of<br /> Santiago Ixtayutla the authorities solicited an explanation but<br /> received none. In the North Sierra the situation is much the same.<br /> Despite the pronounced fear of the presence of the military in<br /> Oaxaca, I don't envision a major military repression while the<br /> remainder of Mexico is on the verge of a massive popular movement<br /> toward political and economic change. The government de facto is<br /> already the APPO.<br /> <br /> "For Oaxaca with its economy wrecked, it will be tough going to play<br /> in this tournament until December. Many people favoring the PAN hope<br /> for an attrition that will leave the APPO, and Section 22 of the<br /> teachers union, crippled. The Segob's previous offers have been<br /> largely economic bribery, having to do with teachers' salaries and<br /> federal funds with no guarantee that such funds would go anywhere<br /> other than into the pocket of URO or his likely clone. As bribery,<br /> such offers are inadequate, and as politics, they are horrible. On<br /> Friday the 15th Creel outlined three options he can present to the<br /> national Senate, and all are methods of creating a commission to<br /> discuss what can be done. On the other hand, the longer the federal<br /> government stalls, the more entrenched the popular government becomes."<br /> <br /> Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin:<br /> <a href="http://www.narconews.com">Narco News</a><br /> <br /> From somewhere in a country called América,<br /> <br /> Dan Feder<br /> Managing Editor<br /> The Narco News Bulletin<br /> dan@narconews.com<br />