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URO Visits The Zocalo

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Last tuesday the teachers kicked off their usual June strike with a march to the Zocalo. It was pretty low key with teachers entering in small groups and with a few speeches and songs in the kiosk. APPO showed up about noon and promised they would be boycotting the government-sponsored Gueleguetza again this year…but that there would be a “Popular” Gueleguetza sponsored by the people as there was last year.

As I was about to leave the zocalo tuesday the governor showed up. The guy on the right is URO…guy on the left is the mayor of Oaxaca City. Didn’t notice the time but it was about dusk. Even though the zoc was pretty well thinned out he paraded more than once around the zocalo followed by video cameras and security… kissing babies, shaking hands and talking with a few people who came up to him. Interestingly, he never went near the west side. The place was crawling with security. Then for about 20 minutes or so he casually sat with the mayor and 3-4 others and had something to drink at a sidewalk table in front of one of the cafes (the one in front of the sushi restaurant) on the east side. Then he left with cameras in tow.

Pissing on his territory I guess.



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