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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.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Mexico Leftist Leader Joins Oaxaca Protest

By REBECA ROMERO
Associated Press Writer

OAXACA, Mexico (AP) -- A leader of Mexico's largest leftist party led thousands of protesters in a march to the center of this historic city on Sunday, demanding the resignation of the state governor and the withdrawal of thousands of federal police.

Shouting "Freedom for political prisoners!" the demonstrators also called for the release of more than 200 people arrested in the six-month-long conflict in Oaxaca that has shattered the local economy and left at least nine dead.

Leonel Cota, president of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party or PRD, marched at the front of the demonstration alongside his party's lawmakers and Oaxacan protest leaders.

The protesters - a broad front of leftists, students and Indian groups - accuse Gov. Ulises Ruiz of rigging his election in 2004 and of sending armed thugs against his opponents.

They took over the center of Oaxaca for five months until thousands of federal police drove them off in clashes in October and November.

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