Fw: [narconews] Giordano: The Coup d'Etat in Mexico

["nello margiotta" <nellomargiotta55 at virgilio.it>]

> November 29, 2006
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> Friday, December 1, and the scheduled ascension of Felipe Calderón to
> the presidency, will mark the culmination of a Coup d'Etat in Mexico,
> reports Al Giordano.
>
> Connecting the dots between July's fraudulent presidential election,
> the popular rebellion in Oaxaca and the brutal repression against it,
> and the completion, today, of the 11-month marathon listening tour
> throughout Mexico by the Zapatista Other Campaign, Giordano predicts
> more repression to come but the rise of a national movement to
> reverse the coup d'etat:
>
> "The events in recent days in Oaxaca mark the largest mass arrest in
> Mexico since May 3 and 4, when 217 citizens were detained in Atenco
> and nearby Texcoco, outside of Mexico City. Within days of the Atenco
> police raid, the first witnesses to the beatings, rapes and tortures
> of the detained appeared: five foreigners - journalists and human
> rights observers - that had been swept up by police as they
> documented the events in Atenco, who were kept incommunicado for
> various days then deported back to Barcelona, Berlin and Santiago de
> Chile. From them the world learned of the gang rapes and other
> savagery inflicted on bound and blindfolded women and men as they
> were taken to prison. Federal police bosses have openly scoffed at
> the stern recommendations by the National Human Rights Commission, a
> government agency, that the police brutality be investigated and
> punished. In that context, the secretive stance of the State
> regarding the Oaxaca prisoners is worrisome.
>
> "...The PAN again jumped the gun on Tuesday. Misinterpreting the
> appearance on the Congressional Hall podium of a sole PRD legislator
> as a 'signal' that the dissident legislators were about to take the
> stage en mass, the PAN legislators launched a preemptive strike. This
> provoked the PRD legislators to follow them up there. Pushing and
> shoving, and more than a few fisticuffs ensued for control of the
> three-tiered podium. One PAN legislator pulled out a spray-can of
> mace, and tear-gassed a PRD legislator in the face, leading to his
> hospitalization. Another PAN legislator, 35-year-old Violeta Lagunes,
> of Puebla, was captured on film dumping soda and other liquids onto
> rival legislators. The melee continued throughout the day and night,
> with both sides vowing to hold the stage until Friday: one side to
> guarantee Calderón's ascent, the other to prevent it.
>
> "...Today marks the final stretch in the eleven-month marathon that
> has been the Zapatista Other Campaign's listening tour of all of
> Mexico. Insurgent Subcomandante Marcos, who has visited every corner
> of the country since January 1, taking notes of the testimony of 'the
> simple and humble people who fight,' will make one more stop in the
> rural Huasteca region of the state of San Luis Potosí and soon head
> back to Chiapas to inform his indigenous comandantes of his findings.
> December will be dedicated to meetings between Other Campaign
> adherents to determine the next steps of what is now a truly
> nationwide effort to topple not just an illegitimate government but
> also 'the capitalist system' that it serves. At the end of the year,
> December 30, the Zapatistas will receive delegates from throughout
> the world for an international gathering in the autonomous municipal
> seat of Oventik, Chiapas.
>
> "...Whether by commission or omission, Vicente Fox Queseda, who
> wanted so much to be known as a statesman that ended 70 years of
> single party dictatorship, leaves with a legacy as having been just
> one more bumbling repressor and looter in a long list of them.
> Calderón and his team, on the other hand, begin with no such
> transcendent illusions. They are the proud architects and heirs of
> the 21st Century Coup d'Etat, and payday comes on Friday."
>
> The incoming Calderón government has hinted, by way of it's cabinet
> appointments, that it will be using a more heavy-handed approach than the 
> outgoing administration when dealing with social movements such as the 
> APPO in Oaxaca and the Zapatistas in Chiapas.
>
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