Hi, Oaxaca problems are not ideology related, it is an internal fight between former ruling PRI party advocates and splint groups. Free elections and rule of the law is the only way to avoid this kind of problems on the future.
Please dont confuse this hooligans with real freedom fighters.

Regarding A Daily Survey of What the International Online Media Are Saying RE: The 'Cauldron of Oaxaca'

Your comments on Brad Will's video footage taken in the last moments of his life, were that it "captured the chaos and danger of a long-running conflict." You did not note that it also captured the hired assisin as he shot him. It seems that all the US media accounts leave out that inconvenient truth. Brad Will was not killed by random violence.

this is stupid

Well i think they should stop all this no-sence because this is so retarded

Well i think they should stop all this no-sence because this is so retarded

What we're seeing in Oaxaca is social democracy in action. No, not the protesters. But Gov. Ruiz and his party, the PRI, which is a full member in good standing of the Socialist International, along with the British Labour Party of Tony Blair, the Sandinista Front of Daniel Ortega, and the Israel Labour Party of Israeli Defense Minister Emir Peretz. Some big and wild tent, no?

What you fail to mention is the so called "independent media" is not an independent media at all but a group of leftist radicals dressed up as journalists who are funded by Hugo Chavez and other totalitarian dictators. We are perfectly aware of what these people are doing in our country. They come in allegedly to report and serve these radical communist organizations in their effort to destroy our democracy.
I am glad we got rid of such a punk. The rest of us Mexicans, the millions, the great mayority of us who work and pay taxes and go to school and contribute to our democracy peacefully, we who do not believe in communism and marxism as these bastards of the appo and their stupid ignorant foreign puppets do.

The author of these article mentions poverty but these little gang of bastards have almost destroyed the only sources of income these state has.

The governor was elected by the mayority of the people of Oaxaca.

80% of the teachers are back in their schools, except for those in the capital city of Oaxaca who will go back to work when security conditions allow it.

Nonsense in Americans supporting this kind of fiascos. Get real!

I'm curious what "real freedom fighters" are if not these people. Whether you're elected or not, you don't have a right to brutalize the people you represent. If you're an elected official and your people have taken to the streets in this way, I think it's time to take a good hard look at your administration and see if you're doing something wrong. I don't claim to have any more insight into this situation than anyone else who isn't there. But I'm sure these people were not risking their lives for five months for no reason. Any way you look at it, it was the protesters who were killed (at least 9 of them) and none of the government forces have, to my knowledge, any injuries. That should tell you something. If this were a well-funded provocateur group, don't you think whoever they're representing would get them some guns and ammo at least? All the videos are on YouTube and they're unedited. I would encourage people to watch them and make up your own mind.

You mistranlate Mr. Carrasco's commentary from Proceso, and misrepresent his analysis.

He writes that the social movements in Mexico "are not satisfied with" of "are not being satisfied by" the currrent system of electoral democracy ("no se satisfacen con"), not "will not be satisifed by electoral democracy."

Mr. Carrasco goes on to write that fundamental democratic and electoral reforms are necessary if those just demands are to be met, and the spread of ungovernability stemmed.

Proceso, you may recall, since you purport to be a reader, has led the way in investigating the myriad irregularities in the July election, and in calling for a "citizen's recount" under Mexico's freedom of information laws.

Well, it is obvious that Mexicans do not have confidence in the electorial process, and do not feel any government is meeting their needs.
Mexicans need to be in control of their own country. I would suggest, among other things, that they dump NAFTA, and go to bilateral trade. They should have high trade barriers, and concentrate on developing an internal Mexican owned economy. They should have Mexican industries employing Mexican citizens. There will be no true development in Mexico, unless the government and the economy is designed to service the national interest of the Mexican nation and it's people. Mexicans have to figure it out. This is the meaning of "Self Determination".

Sorry to stray off topic, Jeferson, but what of the ascension of Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli Knesset?

Just as Carter is going to release his book comparing the Israeli settlement movement to South Africa's apartheid system, a guy who makes PW Botha look like a man who was deeply concerned with human rights is brought into the Israeli Knesset.
This, after Israel drags us into a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon and then loses in a very big way, in turn emboldening the insurgency in Iraq.

I would like to suggest that it might be worth your attention, especially since the leaders of the democratic party, (Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean) are suggesting that Carter's views are not those of the Democratic Party and that furthermore, they do not believe that there is any connection between terrorism and Israeli policies in the region, which is, needless to say a baseless and ridiculus assertion on their part.

I wonder how they are going to try to white wash Avigdor Liebermans hateful and damaging rhetoric?

J

@BBC: "Sharon admitted to intensive care
Former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, in a coma since January, is admitted to intensive care with a heart infection."

Obviously wrong subject, but we should discuss. Something pretty sick is going on there. Olmert, once more, is pulling a fast-one.

Jefferson, You really should cover the bombshell international poll, out today, revealing how citizens of America's closest allies, including Britain and Canada, view the U.S. under George W. Bush as more of a danger to world peace than North Korea or Iran. No wonder Britons, Europeans, Canadians and indeed practically all of the U.S.'s one-time allies are now talking about abandoning that relationship and fortifying our defences against the U.S. menace.

British Believe Bush Is More Dangerous Than Kim Jong-il
By Julian Glover
The Guardian UK

Friday 03 November 2006

US allies think Washington threat to world peace. Only bin Laden feared more in United Kingdom.

America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.

Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil", but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US.

The survey has been carried out by the Guardian in Britain and leading newspapers in Israel (Haaretz), Canada (La Presse and Toronto Star) and Mexico (Reforma), using professional local opinion polling in each country.

It exposes high levels of distrust. In Britain, 69% of those questioned say they believe US policy has made the world less safe since 2001, with only 7% thinking action in Iraq and Afghanistan has increased global security.

The finding is mirrored in America's immediate northern and southern neighbours, Canada and Mexico, with 62% of Canadians and 57% of Mexicans saying the world has become more dangerous because of US policy.

Even in Israel, which has long looked to America to guarantee national security, support for the US has slipped.

Only one in four Israeli voters say that Mr Bush has made the world safer, outweighed by the number who think he has added to the risk of international conflict, 36% to 25%. A further 30% say that at best he has made no difference.

Voters in three of the four countries surveyed also overwhelmingly reject the decision to invade Iraq, with only Israeli voters in favour, 59% to 34% against. Opinion against the war has hardened strongly since a similar survey before the US presidential election in 2004.

In Britain 71% of voters now say the invasion was unjustified, a view shared by 89% of Mexicans and 73% of Canadians. Canada is a Nato member whose troops are in action in Afghanistan. Neither do voters think America has helped advance democracy in developing countries, one of the justifications for deposing Saddam Hussein. Only 11% of Britons and 28% of Israelis think that has happened.

As a result, Mr Bush is ranked with some of his bitterest enemies as a cause of global anxiety. He is outranked by Osama bin Laden in all four countries, but runs the al-Qaida leader close in the eyes of UK voters: 87% think the al-Qaida leader is a great or moderate danger to peace, compared with 75% who think this of Mr Bush.

The US leader and close ally of Tony Blair is seen in Britain as a more dangerous man than the president of Iran (62% think he is a danger), the North Korean leader (69%) and the leader of Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah (65%).

Only 10% of British voters think that Mr Bush poses no danger at all.

For rest of story, see: www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1938434,00.html (The Guardian, Britain)

or

www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162507817274&call_pageid=968332188492 (The Star, Canada)

or www.haaretz.com (Haaretz, Israel)

or "George W. Bush: a danger for the planet" in La Presse, Canada, www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20061103/CPMONDE/61102274/1030/CPMONDE

@@Jefferson Morley:
Earlier made a comment about changing subject to slow death of Ariel (see November 3, 2006 10:40 AM). Is highly critical interms of worlds trust vi-a-vis Israel.

Now another critical subject is the issue of Rev. Ted Haggard and the HomosexuelProstitute - has great implications on upcoming elections.
Really, with such issues, who cares about the 'Cauldron of Oaxaca'.

@Tony
Indeed I've been reading many European papers (Dutch, French, German, English - yes, I do speak these languages) and indeed Europe is becomming anti-Bush/American. The many Blogs, formal statements from these papers, and "News" (whatever that is) are anti-American and is getting worse. Also, interesting that Germany is no longer this former Hitler country since Bush took over here. They are highly respected worldwide. We are now the bad guys and for a long time to come. Very sad.

So yet another country has given a smashing victory to an anti-U.S. politician -- this time Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Front in Nicaragua. Expect more countries to follow. Because that's what you get when you elect an arrogant thug like George W. Bush to the presidency: the world turns against you.
Bush has shown contempt for international law, for the United Nations, for other countries' views, for basic human-rights principles, and indeed for most of humanity.
He was warned on Iraq. His answer was that the UN risked becoming "irrelevant" if it didn't follow his ill-conceived war plan.
Look who's irrelevant now! More and more, it's the United States of America.
Your country is despised as never before. Your country is making enemies as never before. And you deserve it. You Americans foisted Bush on the world. And now you are starting to pay the price.

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