News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Police hostages freed after violent clashes in radical town outside Mexico City

By Eduardo Verdugo
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:47 p.m. May 3, 2006

SAN SALVADOR ATENCO, Mexico – Machete-wielding farmers who clashed violently with authorities, kidnapped police officers and seized control of this town outside Mexico's capital released all six of their hostages late Wednesday night.

Shortly before midnight, radical community leaders in San Salvador Atenco called Red Cross officials to a small clinic near the center of town and released the six state and federal police officers they had seized hours earlier. Organizers said it was a gesture of good will since all of the former hostages were injured – having been beaten and some sliced with machetes.

Inhabitants armed with homemade explosives who erected barricades of burning tires continued to block a major highway leading into town and refused to allow police or government officials in. Still, things were relatively calm before dawn Thursday.

Trouble began in Atenco – which has a history of clashing with authorities – early Wednesday, when inhabitants attacked police in response to the arrest of several of their companions at a market in the nearby town of Texcoco.

posted by missionaryman | 8:15 AM

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