Julio Huato wrote:
Just one addendum to the news update on Mexico:
Two days ago, when Calderón was unfolding his Plan Michoacán, his
wife's cousin was executed in a very deliberate fashion in a Mexico
City suburb. Shot in the head while kneeling. The media is treating
it as another crime. One wonders whether the narcos are sending a
signal to him or whether the cousin was involved in something. Or
something....
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Or something...
Honestly, I have a hard time, no... impossible time, thinking of
narco-terrorists as guerrilla groups. However, there does seem to be a
whiff of general insurrection in the air.
From a google news search on: "Mazahua", after reading a Sacramento Bee
story about the 300 Mazahua Indians who seized Mexico City's water plant
the other day:
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6. Capitalism has a fundamentally different vision from ours; it seeks
the destruction of our mother earth to turn it into merchandise that
is bought and sold for profit and the benefit of the few who call
themselves capitalists and the governments and politicians who serve
them.
7. The neoliberal ideology of the Mexican government is part of a war
without end and the conquest of our people. Its politics seek to
destroy the earth and disappear our culture through the plundering of
our territories and traditional knowledge. This includes the
contamination of our native corn, the privatization of all the
elements that make up mother earth, and the repudiation of our own
ways of organization and governing.
Declaration from Mezcala: In Defense of Mother Earth and Indigenous
Autonomy
by Indigenous Congress of Mexico Sunday Nov 26th, 2006 1:34 PM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/26/18333494.php
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This story is taken from World News at sacbee.com.
300 Mazahua Indians seize Mexican plant
The Associated Press
Published 9:19 pm PST Wednesday, December 13, 2006
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A group of about 300 Mazahua Indians briefly seized a
water treatment plant on Mexico City's western outskirts Wednesday and
temporarily cut off one of the main sources of water for the metropolis
of 18 million people, the National Water Commission said.
The protest was motivated by demands for more government development
aid, local media reported.
The protesters live in the watershed of the Cutzamala River in the high,
pine-covered mountains west of Mexico City. The river provides almost
one-third of the city's water. The Indians broke into the treatment
plant late Tuesday, and closed the intake valves for about four hours,
the National Water Commission said in a press statement.
The commission said that full service would be restored by the end of
Wednesday.
In September 2004, the same group staged a similar protest, blocking
chlorine deliveries but not stopping the water supply. They were
demanding damage payments for reservoir overflows that damaged crops, as
well as money for rural development projects and drinking water systems
for their own communities.
In late 2004, the government gave them almost $120,000 in damage
payments, promised to build water systems for them and gave them grants
for thousands of Christmas tree seedlings to plant for income.
http://dwb.sacbee.com/24hour/world/v-print/story/3446581p-12636141c.html
