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Mexico: Strikers Take Over Oaxaca

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | July 25th, 2006 | Trackback

Striking teachers who have disrupted travel throughout Oaxaca state since May 22 have driven away some three-quarters of the area’s tourists. Visitors are avoiding Oaxaca city because the strikers have effectively taken over the main square, setting up barricades and checkpoints and vandalizing hotels. Police have let them have their way since late June when a crackdown with tear gas failed to drive them out of the square. The strike includes union members and leftists who are pushing for the governor’s resignation. On July 22 a band of gunmen attacked Oaxaca’s university radio station, firing bullets through the windows. Strikers believe the attack was retaliation for the station’s support of the strikers.





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