English below:

 

Español: voy a tratar de conseguir información en español de Alex Halkin (Chiapas Media Project) que está en Oaxaca e informa que el ejército está a punto de entrar a la ciudad armados hasta los dientes. La gente está en la calle y la situación puede facilmente resultar en un terrible derramamiento de sangre.

 

Sasha Costanza-Chock me contó hace dos días que Brad Will, un periodista de Indymedia fue asesinado en Oaxaca. Más información en el portal de Indymedia (http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml)

 

English:

 

From Alex Halkin (Chiapas Media Project)

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October 29, 2006

Oaxaca, Mexico

 

Dear Friends

 

As many of you know I have been living in Oaxaca, Mexico for the last 2 months.  Below is a press release that I sent out to many of you yesterday. Right now Federal forces are moving into the city. They have humvees, water tanks, helicopters etc. People are going into the streets to support barricades that have been set up to block the entrance of these forces. This is a situation that has the possibility to create many deaths today. I am asking you to contact Fox and Abascal (info. listed below) and demand the immediate withdrawal of these troops. I myself am safe working out of a friend's house that has phone and internet. I will be on the internet continually.

 

Thanks for your support--

 

abrazos,

Alex

 

 

President Vicente Fox:

Fax: 011-52-55-52-77-23-76

Phone: 011-52-55-27-89-11-00

 

Sec. of Internal Affairs, Carlos Abascal

Tel: 011-52-55-50-93-34-00

Email: [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

Clemencia Rodriguez

Associate Professor

Department of Communication

University of Oklahoma

610 Elm Ave Room 101

Norman OK 73019

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Phone 405 325 1570

Fax 405 325 7625