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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2006 
Mexico Issues Ultimatum to Oaxaca Protesters
 AFP
| | Teachers shout slogans against members of the Federal Police after their arrival to the Benito Juarez airport in Oaxaca, Mexico. The Mexican government demanded that protesters lift their barricades and evacuate occupied buildings in the restive southern city of Oaxaca. (AFP/Mario Vazquez) |
The Mexican government demanded that protesters lift their barricades and evacuate occupied buildings in the restive southern city of Oaxaca.
A statement from the interior ministry demanded "the immediate handover of the streets, plazas, public buildings and private property" taken over by protesters.
The federal demands come as President Vicente Fox on Saturday sent federal forces to the region to retake control of the city. Some 70,000 Oaxaca teachers have been on strike in the city for five months demanding higher pay and the resignation of the state governor.
The government had hoped to settle the problem in negotiations before the December 1 inauguration of president-elect Felipe Calderon.
Main access routes to the state capital, with a population of about 600,000, were blocked Friday by protesters' barricades.
On Friday a US cameraman for the Indymedia independent media website covering the protest and two Mexicans were shot dead near the barricades. |
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