Thursday, October 26, 2006

Oaxaca, Mexico: Gunshots and burning bus force striking teachers to suspend latest vote


At least 5 gunshots were fired in the vicinity of the Hotel Magisterial where the striking teachers were trying to hold their latest vote on returning to work . . .or not. Then, a block from the hotel, a group of masked gunmen set fire to a bus they had hijacked and driven to the spot.

All of this "respect" for the teachers' decision which was promised by APPO was more than the teachers could bear and forced them to suspend their poll and evacuate the hotel. Section 22 leader Enrique Rueda Pacheco did not even try to put in an appearance at the hotel.

Unofficial word from inside the hotel indicates that the teachers are generally in favor of returning to their classrooms by a margin of 27,000 for and 16,000 against. There have already been charges of vote manipulation.

I guess that the suspension of voting under threat of lead poisoning or immolation doesn't count as vote manipulation.

Mark in Mexico, http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/, Palehorse Galleries, http://palehorsemex.vstore.ca/, Oaxaca, Mexico teachers strike, Gunfire and a burning bus a block away from the polling site has forced the suspension of the teachers' vote on returning to work . . . or not, as well as an evacuation of the hotel where the vote was taking place. At the time of the poll's suspension, unofficial word from inside the hotel where the teachers were voting indicated that the vote favored a return to classrooms by a 27,000 to 16,000 vote margin.


Mark in Mexico, http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/, Palehorse Galleries, http://palehorsemex.vstore.ca/, Oaxaca, Mexico teachers strike, Gunfire and a burning bus a block away from the polling site has forced the suspension of the teachers' vote on returning to work . . . or not, as well as an evacuation of the hotel where the vote was taking place. At the time of the poll's suspension, unofficial word from inside the hotel where the teachers were voting indicated that the vote favored a return to classrooms by a 27,000 to 16,000 vote margin.



Mark in Mexico, http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/, Palehorse Galleries, http://palehorsemex.vstore.ca/, Oaxaca, Mexico teachers strike, Gunfire and a burning bus a block away from the polling site has forced the suspension of the teachers' vote on returning to work . . . or not, as well as an evacuation of the hotel where the vote was taking place. At the time of the poll's suspension, unofficial word from inside the hotel where the teachers were voting indicated that the vote favored a return to classrooms by a 27,000 to 16,000 vote margin.


Mark in Mexico, http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/, Palehorse Galleries, http://palehorsemex.vstore.ca/, Oaxaca, Mexico teachers strike, Gunfire and a burning bus a block away from the polling site has forced the suspension of the teachers' vote on returning to work . . . or not, as well as an evacuation of the hotel where the vote was taking place. At the time of the poll's suspension, unofficial word from inside the hotel where the teachers were voting indicated that the vote favored a return to classrooms by a 27,000 to 16,000 vote margin.

Mark in Mexico, http://markinmexico.blogspot.com/, Palehorse Galleries, http://palehorsemex.vstore.ca/, Oaxaca, Mexico teachers strike, Gunfire and a burning bus a block away from the polling site has forced the suspension of the teachers' vote on returning to work . . . or not, as well as an evacuation of the hotel where the vote was taking place. At the time of the poll's suspension, unofficial word from inside the hotel where the teachers were voting indicated that the vote favored a return to classrooms by a 27,000 to 16,000 vote margin.

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