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"Bruce Eggum" <bruce.eggum(at)gmail.com> |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:22:58 -0600 |
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Humanity |
I copy this which discloses some others plight and fight. These atrocities from powerful governments need confrontation. Often, emails and letters as well as postings to media will help. Unless we know about these things and begin confronting them en mass, it will only get worse.
ATB Bruce
Oaxaca, la cara
del fascismo méxicano, 15 de enero de 2007
Oaxaca, the face of Mexican fascism, 15
January 2007
Friends,
I received from a teacher here, a good
person who I'll call X, the following heartfelt e-mail to various
international
human rights (derechos humanos) organizations:
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Subject: More human right
violations in Oaxaca
From: X
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:54:06 -0600 (CST)
To:
indigenous(at)ohchr.org, derechos humanos canada
<hri(at)hri.ca>,
derechos
humanos intl <dh(at)derechos.org>, derechos humanos onu
<tb-petitions(at)ohchr.org>
CC: limedh <ligamexicana(at)prodigy.net.mx>,
correo(at)cndh.gob.mx
Dear Sirs:
When almost
all the human rights organizations interested in knowing the situation
of human
rights in my country are paying a lot of attention to the Oaxacan
struggle to get
a new democratic order in this poor southern Mexican state, not many of
them
are looking to the dismay situation that most Central American people
traveling
through Mexico to the United States are in.
Mexico is always demanding respect to its
citizens north of the Rio Grande, but
how is my
country acting with those poor foreign people in our Souther border
with Guatemala?
They as well as the Mexican migrants in the USA ,
are just hard working people
wanting to get away from lack of employment, lack of education, poor
salaries
and dictatorial goverments, looking for better oportunities for
themselves or
their families. And the first thing they find once they have crossed
the
Mexican border and are into Mexico, their "big brother" up North, is
repression, a criminal and corrupt police, and so many problems that if
they
arrived alive to the border between Mexico and the USA, it is a real
miracle!
What a
shame for our country! Many Central American migrants declare that the
worst
part of their journey is crossing through Mexico
and specially the Southern portion of their trip: Chiapas
and Oaxaca.
Just to ask for your attention, I'm inculuding a recent newspaper
article about
a Catholic priest that was put in jail together with some Central
American
migrants for attempting to rescue some other migrants kidnapped by the
local
Migratory Police in order to get money randsoms!
Please,
start to put sanctions to any country that doesn't respect the
international
treaties that it has signed! Stop giving honorary posts to those
countries
because doing that you are just helping those corrupt regimes to stay
longer in
power! Help us to show the real visage of those goverments. Very often,
as is
the case in Mexico,
all the mass media are in the hands of the politicians and they use
radio and TV
programs to show all the people who rely on those media to get news
(most of
the population) that
they
are the only option and that they are acting fine as it is demonstrated
by the
international community acceptance of our country at key posts.
Stop this
scandalous double moral. You must know that in accepting that double
moral you
are becoming accoplishes of this tiranic country. Please. Act as you
did with South
Africa.
It is just the same situation! Any person visiting this country or
supporting
its economy is also supporting all those crimes!
-------------------------------------------------
X included
with his plea the
first two paragraphs of the11 Jan La Jornada
report, at http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/01/11/index.php?section=sociedad&article=044n1soc
. I am translating the entire article, but it is not yet ready to
include with this note.
The state of
terror in Oaxaca
is severe. My friend is at risk for
even writing such an appeal, and yet his/her focus is not on the
terrible
oppression Oaxaqueños are suffering, but on that of poor Central
American
migrants to the U.S.
What he doesn't yet realize is that decent lives, not just for
Oaxaqueños but
for all latinos, indeed for all peoples, is impossible as long as the
U.S. (or
any government) retains enormous power. Over half a century ago George
F.
Kennan, a so-called 'dove' in the highest U.S. government bodies,
wrote:
"We
have about 60 per cent of the world's wealth but
only 6.3 percent of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to
be the
object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to
devise
a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this
position of
disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the
luxury of
altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such
vague and
unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and
democratisation.
The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight
power
concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the
better."
―George Kennan, former head of
the US State Department Policy Planning
Staff
(Document
PPS23, 24 February 1948)
For
information about the ongoing
struggle in Oaxaca,
two useful sources (in English) are
1. the
Oaxaca Study Action Group Yahoo group listserv at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/
and
2. the
Narco News Journal website at
http://www.narconews.com/en.html
Two
Spanish-language sources are
1. the daily
national newspaper La Jornada, at
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/
and
2. the daily Oaxaca newspaper Noticias, Voz y Imagen de
Oaxaca, at
http://www.noticias-oax.com.mx/index.php
--
Bruce Eggum
Gresham Wisconsin, USA
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