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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2006 
Mexico Releases 16 Prisoners Arrested in Oaxaca Conflict
 Associated Press
| | Unclaimed and unidentified bodies lie piled on top of one another at a morgue in Oaxaca November 9, 2006. Dozens of corpses of people who died in robberies, road accidents and other mishaps have piled up at the city's morgue, built and unmodified since 1943, after law enforcement broke down during the months of social strife in the state. Normally after lying unclaimed for a while, the bodies would be sent to a common grave or to the university medical school but since the state bureaucracy has been inoperative for months, the bodies have just piled up. (Reuters/Daniel Aguilar) |
Oaxaca, Mexico - Mexican authorities said 16 protesters arrested during the monthslong conflict in Oaxaca state were released Thursday because of a lack of evidence.
About 75 others remain jailed, said Lino Celaya, Oaxaca's secretary of citizen protection.
The protesters, a broad front of leftists, trade unionists and Indian groups, had taken over the center of Oaxaca for six months until more than 4,000 federal police armed with water canons and helicopters drove them off in October and November.
Last week, federal police ended their seven-week occupation of the colonial city.
The withdrawal was another sign the conflict that killed nine people, scared away tourists and shattered the tourist destination's economy is ending. |
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