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 News from Around the Americas | August 2006 
U.S. Warns Travelers About Oaxaca City
 Associated Press
| | People walk on a street with barricades in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006. Thousands of protesters calling for Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz's resignation have occupied the southern city's center, stealing buses, setting up barricades and taking over radio and television stations to broadcast revolutionary messages. The protest started May 22. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) |
U.S. citizens were warned Thursday that increasing political violence in Oaxaca City, Mexico, might make the mountain resort too risky to visit.
The State Department said the unrest, which began in May as a strike by a local teachers' union, has grown and spread.
It said the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has reports of robberies and assaults in normally peaceful areas of the city.
Two people have died in the turmoil.
Oaxaca is a historic city in southern Mexico, west of the Yucatan Peninsula, that is popular with tourists.
Protesters in the city said Thursday they were willing to enter negotiations to end the monthslong conflict.
They insist, however, that the state's governor must step down before the trouble can end.
The department advised U.S. citizens with plans to go to Oaxaca City to consider "carefully the risk of travel at this time due to the recent increase in violence."
The announcement remains effective until Sept. 24. |
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