Reporters Forced Out of Muckraking Oaxaca Newspaper Office

The Word Socialist Web Site's latest 'Workers Struggles: The Americas' has an update on the newspaper whose opposition to the regional Mexican government has brought it under siege by allies of the ruling party.

On July 21 hundreds of workers marched through Oaxaca, a city in southwest Mexico, in solidarity with employees of the Noticias Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca newspaper who had been brutally assaulted July 18 by an armed goon squad. Thirty-one press workers were conducting a sit-in to defend the offices of Noticias, an opposition newspaper, and were violently expelled by the masked men, who were armed with baseball bats and metal rods. After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper’s equipment.

Several columns of protesters marched across the city with signs that blamed the assault on state authorities and called for an end to the repression of workers.

The WSWS news brief continues with some background on the strike called against the newspaper by the PRI-affiliated Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Farmers (CROC).

• Past Coverage on the NarcoSphere:
  
  
  
  • Gov't Attack on Oaxaca Newspaper Continues
  
  
  • Shannon Young reports on newspaper workers trapped by mob in Oaxaca