The ‘Battle of Oaxaca’ Intensifies

by E Wayne Ross on November 13, 2006

Green Left Weekly: The ‘Battle of Oaxaca’ Intensifies
A five-kilometer-long “mega-march” of hundreds of thousands of protesters took place in the state of Oaxaca on Nov. 5. It demanded the resignation of the hated state governor, Ulises Ruíz Ortíz (known as URO). Only a few days earlier, on Nov. 2, there was a battle to keep control of Benito Juárez University from federal troops that occupied the city of Oaxaca, the state’s capital, on Oct. 29. These were just the latest events in a popular revolt in the southern Mexican state aimed at ousting the governor after he used savage repression to curb a teachers’ strike in July.

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