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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2006 
Opposition Leader Accuses Govt of Oaxaca Repression
 Prensa Latina
| | Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's self-proclaimed 'legitimate president', set up a protest camp outside the President-elect Felipe Calderon's transitional office in Mexico City Monday, Nov. 25, 2006. Most Mexicans disapprove of plans by Mexico's main leftist party to disrupt Friday's swearing-in ceremony of the President-elect, according to a poll published Monday. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused on Monday President Vicente Fox, his successor Felipe Calderon, and Governor Ulises Ruiz of the repression against the people of Mexican Oaxaca state.
He also denounced the leaders and members of the PAN (National Action Party) of supporting the Oaxaca Executive in exchange for support by the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) to the power transfer to Calderon on December 1.
Lopez Obrador, who was called by his followers the "legitimate president of Mexico," asserted that the violence and insecurity atmosphere will remain, if there is not a true change in the country.
He called regrettable the violent clashes on Saturday in Oaxaca, considered the cruelest since the teachers´ protests started on May 22, 2006, and reiterated that the federal government is responsible for that situation.
He said the problems in Oaxaca are derived from an agreement between the leaderships of PRI and PAN to keep Ulises Ruiz as governor, also in return for support for Calderon, even at the expense of Oaxaca people´s life and suffering.
Lopez Obrador is currently touring several Mexican municipalities and states, as part of his symbolic itinerant cabinet´s duties, and has reiterated that insecurity and violence will not be solved without a serious change in the country. |
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