Mexico: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly Storms Government Offices

Writing from Oaxaca, Nancy Davies says the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) “declared the governor Ulises Ruiz Ortíz (URO) ‘proscrito – banned, exiled, unwelcome – in the state of Oaxaca.” Rodrigo Javier has eye-opening photos (ES) of APPO storming the government offices. Concluding the post, he writes, “I don't know which stirs more anger: the actual event or that the national papers like El Universal trie to justify it (ES).”

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