[CedarDave]

A lengthy article detailing the protests, riots and takeover of the city and government of Oaxaca by militants, teachers, and supporters of presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (described by the reporter as "liberal"). Conditions in the city are best described as anarchy (reporter characterizes as "edge of anarchy"). Militants with clubs roam the city of 256,000, raid government offices and drag out employees who refuse to leave. Barricades and torched vehicles block the streets. Captured radio stations broadcast leftist manifestos day and night. Police have fled the city, and the governor is in hiding. Downtown is covered with revolutionary graffiti.

The city is effectively under occupation of the leftists who invade government offices and beat employees during the day, and man barricades at night.

The Mexican federal government has not intervened as of yet though their is talk of a truce and negoiations, mediated by the federal government, between the state government and the umbrella leftist group that has control of the city (the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, or APPO) have made little progress.

[CedarDave]

For your PING list please.

[Prokopton]

If the 20 million or so illegal Mexican aliens were given the right to vote, would we have this to look forward to if they didn't agree with an election?

[Max in Utah]

PING

[reelfoot]

"Militants with clubs roam the city of 256,000, raid government offices and drag out employees who refuse to leave. Barricades and torched vehicles block the streets. Captured radio stations broadcast leftist manifestos day and night. Police have fled the city, and the governor is in hiding. Downtown is covered with revolutionary graffiti.

"The city is effectively under occupation of the leftists who invade government offices and beat employees during the day, and man barricades at night."

No doubt these are actually just people who have gove to Oaxaca to look for a better way of life: hard-working, decent people who believe in strong families and traditional values. sarc/off

[ex-Texan]

That is the point of view of the political party that won the presidential election. Another view is that Mexico is ruled by corrupt politicos in the pockets of drug cartel gangsters. Both views are true. Kidnappings for major ransom demands happen nearly every week in Mexico City. Drug money controls the military, police and covert agencies. A bit of advice: I would not visit any vacation spot anywhere in Mexico today.

[VOA]

Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca

I wonder how much of the marches we saw in the spring was by
Popular Assembly of the People of Los Angeles

(or Dallas, or Chicago, or....)