Oaxaca Village Trip
Monday, November 27th, 2006It looks like I made the right decision to go to Oaxaca last weekend and miss the surfing competition here because things have gotten more out of hand this weekend in that lovely colonial city. From what I just read, the protesters escalated the situation by lighting buildings on fire and attempting to surround the police. It seems very silly to me because they only further alienate themselves (and their many causes) from the Oaxacan locals and they are well outnumbered by the federal police (supposedly a small subset of 4000 protesters participated and there are about 4000 police officers if I remember correctly). That’s a few dozen or hundred people against 4000 well-armed police… good luck. A new president takes over December 1st and he will probably need to make a difficult decision on how to end this problem before it snowballs into something ugly.
Last Sunday I went on a tour of Oaxacan villages…