Oaxaca to Continue Talks in January,... from Prensa Latina

It all started when teachers went on strike back in May. Then Ulises used antiriot police as his mean of negotiating with strikers, and as a result of that APPO (the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca) was created by several organisations in June.

By July hitmen and paramilitary started the kidnapping and drive-by shootings against the APPO barricades and teachers. August-September are the months when the federal police and marine started to asses the situation with the purpose of intervening.

In October the federal police entered. In November two battles took place and the teachers started to chicken out. It seems that Enrique Rueda negotiated something with either the governor or the federal government as teachers’ withdrawal weaken APPO.

Despite not having successfully achieved their original demand, teachers seem now more pro-government than pro-APPO. (Comment by Wet_ahuizote)

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Oaxaca to Continue Talks in January

Mexico, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) Mexico´s Interior Ministry announced talks will continue with the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) on January 8 to try to resolve the issues provoking the conflict still damaging that Mexican state.

Minister Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuña and the APPO leadership will examine the files of arrested APPO members to determine legal possibilities for their release

APPO spokesman Jesus Lopez Rodriguez said he expected positive progress on the issue of their release.

Meanwhile, Section 22 of the SNTE (teachers union) will hold a state assembly to decide on restructuring and the role it will play considering the political reality in the country.

Oaxaca union leader Miguel Rueda said the teachers meeting will decide the Section s course in the national struggle for the "democratization of SNTE along with the National Education Workers Coordinator."

Oaxaca teachers will be back in the classrooms on January 2, one week before the rest of the teachers in the country, in order to fulfil their commitment with the academic year 2006-2007.

However according to union broadcast released in the capital, teachers consider some school centers remain insecure and there are also salary issues still pending.