MANIFIESTO DE XOXOCOTLA

C. DR. MARCO ADAME CASTILLO

GOBERNADOR CONSTITUCIONAL DEL ESTADO

CUERNAVACA, MORELOS

PRESENTE

Ante la brutal represión que sufrimos pro parte de usted y de sus corporaciones policíacas los días 8 y 9 de octubre del presente año en la comunidad indígena de Xoxocotla, Morelos, hechos que usted conoce y coordino junto con el gobierno federal y con su partido el PAN, con el afán de cumplir su voluntad e imponer un programa educativo que por nombre le pusieron ALIANZA EDUCATIVA, programa que rechazamos rotundamente porque nunca fuimos consultado como comunidad y que a los maestros tampoco lo hicieron. Violentando de esta manera los derechos del pueblo en conocer y participar en la elaboración del plan de desarrollo de los programas que se aplican en las comunidades indígenas, en donde usted se ha negado categóricamente a dialogar con las comunidades indígenas y con los maestros respectivamente; este programa que usted ha querido imponer apoyado por el presidente de la República Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, la Sra.Elba Esther Gordillo y la Sra.

This is a short video report on the attack on Xoxocotla, in Spanish:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjVNKGMSqII

 

On October 2nd, tens of thousands of people, young and old, took the afternoon off and marched in the streets of Mexico City to the cry of "¡Nunca Más!" - Never again!

On that same day in October, forty years earlier, scores of young people, mostly striking University students, were gathered in Tlatelolco Square for a protest meeting.  Suddenly, and without provocation, Mexican Army troops opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 200 people,wounding countless more, and "disappearing" hundreds more .  The State-controlled media neatly covered up the story, and the Federal government denied that a massacre had taken place.  But forty years later even the Mexican government now admits that it was guilty of the shameless crime of using the armed forces against its own citizens to supress a non-violent protest movement.

Después de publicar nuestro artículo sobre la falta de una movilización efectiva del Ejército mexicano en Tabasco, varios comentarios sobre el mismo tema aparecieron en otros medios.

After publishing our article on the lack of effective mobilization of the Mexican military in Tabasco, several other commentaries to the same effect popped up in other news outlets.

The APPO has forced the PFP into a retreat from its attempted incursion into the Benito Juarez University. But the war is far from over.

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Read the rest at The Narco News Bulletin:
www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2289.html

After a full day;s assault, the thousands of Mexican Federal Police that invaded Oaxaca City today have now occupied the town square and other key parts of the city. But there are many this morning that maintain that the fight is far from over.