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MEXICO
President inaugurated under backdrop of repression, resistance
By
LeiLani Dowell
Published Dec 7, 2006 10:16 PM
Gigantic march
in Mexico City Dec. 1 to protest the inauguration of Felipe
Calderón and in support of the people’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Photo: Alan Roth
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Resistance to the Dec. 1 swearing in of Mexican President Felipe
Calderón turned the traditional ceremony into a farce,
symbolic of the fraudulent elections that granted Calderón
the victory in July.
Legislators from the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of
Andrés Manuel López Obrador—who was sworn in as
Mexico’s legitimate president at a people’s
inauguration on Nov. 20—used chairs to barricade most of
the doors to the Legislative Palace where Calderón’s
inauguration was to take place. He was forced to use a back
entrance to take the oath of office.
The Los Angeles Times reports: “With European princes,
Latin American leaders, former President Bush and other
dignitaries looking on, Calderón was inaugurated amid a
chorus of derisive whistles in a ceremony that lasted less than
two minutes. ‘Felipe will fall! Felipe will fall!’
leftist legislators shouted.”
Meanwhile, resistance continues as 159 people were swept up off
the streets of Oaxaca and arrested over the weekend of Nov.
24-26, for charges related to recent protests. The Narco News
Bulletin reports that 141 of those have been moved by helicopter
to the penitentiary in San José del Rincón,
Nayarit—a twenty-hour drive away from Oaxaca. None of the
arrested has had access to legal support, reporters or family
members. (Nov. 29)
It is feared that the rape and torture of prisoners—of the
kind witnessed during the struggle of flower vendors at Atenco
this May—will occur with impunity and without exposure. A
tour of Mexico recently completed by The Other Campaign of the
Zapatista National Liberation Army found hundreds of political
prisoners, thousands of people facing arrest warrants or charges
for political organizing, and family members of political
activists that had been “disappeared” throughout the
country. (narconews.com, Nov. 29)
Federal police in Oaxaca are now conducting house-to-house raids
through-out the state, searching for leaders of the Popular
Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca.
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