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(en) Mexico, Oaxaca, Police Attack APPO’s Alternative Guelaguetza
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Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:24:46 +0300
June 16th, 2007 - Barucha Calamity Peller writes: Today in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca,
a confrontation between the APPO (Popular Assembly of The Peoples of Oaxaca) and
security forces of the State of Oaxaca as well as Federal Preventive Police has
left at least one movement participant dead as a result of police violence, at
least 62 detained, and an unknown number of people disappeared. According to an
APPO press statement released today, the police launched “a broad offense”
against the people of Oaxaca who were celebrating their alternative and popular
Guelaguetza (an annual Oaxacan cultural festival) in the Guelaguetza auditorium.
The APPO announced two days previous that it would hold an alternative cultural
festival in the main Guelaguetza auditorium, located in the Fortin Mountain
outside of the city.
Federal Preventive Police and State police surrounded the perimeter of the
Guelaguetza auditorium in order to prevent people from entering the festival. A
caravan heading to the festival, tailed by 10,000 people, arrived to the
auditorium, and in that moment the police attacked the crowd with tear gas,
rocks, sticks, whatever they had in their hands, as well as with unidentified
explosive projectiles. People retreated, and the police advanced, beating and
arresting people. Three photographers were reported to have been beaten.
Countless others were tossed into the back of police pick up trucks with serious
injuries.
For the moment the state and the municipal police continue a citywide operation
in the streets of Oaxaca City, detaining people in the open. The military are
reported to have surrounded the city on the highways.
Several people are reported to be in grave conditions, and police apparently
apprehended injured festival participants and APPO supporters while they were
transported by the red cross to receive medical attention.
There are reports that the detained are suffering torture and constant beatings
at the hands of the state and federal police.
Emeterio Merino Cruz Vazquez, the one confirmed fatality from police violence,
was killed from impact from a unidentified explosive projectile fired by police,
which split his intestines open.
The alternative Guelaguetza was planned by the APPO in response to the
government co-optation of the cultural festival that reflects indigenous
tradition through dance. The movement charges that the festival has been made
into a spectacle for tourists for years, and that the “official” Guelaguetza is
an economic excursion on the part of multinational corporations and Ulises Ruiz,
the state Governor targeted by the Oaxaca popular uprising. Last year, in
actions against the official Guelaguetza, members of the APPO uprising burned
the Guelaguetza stage.
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