By: Jaime Ortiz
June 14th, the date that lives in the collective memory of the Oaxacan people. On the morning of this day in 2006, hundreds of state police covered by darkness evicted the teacher’s encampment in the center of the city. Tear gas was launched indiscriminately and the frequency of Radio Plantón was silenced through the destruction of the transmission equipment. Paraphrasing the sound of the barricade “They came in late and then left running”. The Oaxacan society turned to support the teachers, causing the police that day to be defeated.
This date marks the beginning of a popular teachers movement that gave birth to the popular assembly of the people of Oaxaca, APPO. With that, the government began a brutal escalation of repression to silence the social protest, through their caravans of death. The assassin of Antequra, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, killed 27 people, more than 600 were detained and taken to maximum security jails like that of Nayarit. Eleven years after these events that touched Oaxacan society, thousands of people crowded into the streets to demand justice, as the culprits to this day remain free.
Translated from the original here: http://www.desdelasnubes.org/2017
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