While there have not been any ongoing street fights between protesters and police the last days and with the exception of some assaults at Burger King restaurants heavily condemned by the APPO as well as an attack on a protester close to the university Monday morning, the situation in Oaxaca has been all but resolved.

While the federal police still sits in the Zócalo, the university is held by the students. No police can be seen anywhere else, so while the APPO does not take over radio stations and the like, it is clear that they are more in control of the situation than the police. And because both sides know that the protesters have won if only they keep at least part of the city until November 20th, when AMLO gains office as “legitimate president”, or even better December 1st, when Felipe Calderon takes office, to create hell for his period from the first day on by forcing him into responsibility for any action by military or federal police after that date.

So if nothing changes until December 1st, the APPO has won. Therefore everybody is expecting another attack by the federal police — unless the governor steps down of course. For the past days, the students have therefore been collecting stones and making Molotov cocktails as well as spreading them out to the various supposed future battlefields.

The other side has been preparing by trying to make communications as difficult as possible for the students — by attacking their radio station physically and putting up a jammer on the stations frequency.

How this all ends, I do not know. Politics are definitely moving fast here. After having talked to the teachers at my Spanish school here in Oaxaca as well as the staff of my youth hostel (in which I am currently the only guest) about the conflict the last three days, my impression is that the “radicalization” that some feel they have undergone themselves might have been a bit too fast for others, and they might have lost a bit of the sympathy for the workers here in town with some of that.
Great article. I think that international pressure is the only thing that can actually keep the police from attacking again.
Therefore, we have started a petition to protest the human rights violations and support the APPO. It’s in danish: http://www.oaxaca.skrivunde…
Please sign.
Lenge sida du har posta noe nå, Wilmern! Har du blitt arrestert?
very good! what’s gong on now?
Please let me know.
Barbara