party that governs Oaxaca in Mexico?
2006-10-30 15:26:59 · 5 answers · asked by Nahual_Ocelotl 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well he was hardly an accredited journalist. He was as described by others who knew him, a "serious anarchist" and "dedicated anti-capitalist activist."
At the time he was shot he was with a gang of APPO terrorists who were also armed with firearms, also shooting and were attempting to storm the City Hall. That he was killed by suspected police in plainclothes is lamentable, (and criminal) but the civil unrest in Oaxaca is totally out of control. The APPO terrorists have seized and held the centre of Oaxaca City for over three months. They have violently seized several radio stations, the State Congress, many state and municipal offices, the state university, the police stations, all the schools and in every case they have destroyed and vandalized these institutions. They have kidnapped, beaten, abused hundreds of police, city and state officials as well as ordinary Oaxacan civilians. They have blocked all entry and exits from the city, they have siezed and burned hundreds of cars, trucks, buses, homes, businesses, The US extreme left (and the hard left around the world) like to refer to this as a "popular uprising." It is anything but! Over 75% of the people of Oaxaca by public opinion surveys, oppose this gang of terrorists, they live in terror of these militant criminals and they have been openly begging the Federal Government for months to send in police or the army!
The State Governor is hardly any better, he actually started all of this in the first place and he has his own armed gang of plain clothes police shooting at anything that moves every once and a while and provoking as much violence and trouble as he can, and over 70% of Oaxaca wants him gone! (The Mexican Congress, the Senate and even his OWN party the PRI has now asked him to step down!) There are no "good guys" here except for the poor citizens of Oaxaca, crouched every night in their homes in fear under siege from these two gangs of thugs. (and the decent men and women of the Federal Police (PFP) who are even now FINALLY re-occupying the City of Oaxaca and liberating the poor people of this enbattled state from months of terror!)
Brad Will was a dedicated supporter and apologist for one of these gangs, the APPO terrorist group, and while his death was lamentable, he was warned on numerous occasions that even his pals in the APPO itself might be a serious danger to him. (they openly harrass, brutalize and attack any journalist who does not report ONLY their precise extremist point of view. They almost lynched a "Televisa" reporter yesterday.)
2006-10-31 01:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you watch the video that he took himself immediately before his death, you will see for yourself that calling it "murder" is not exactly accurate. For some reason, certain people have a huge stake in making Will (Roland?) into some kind of mythological martyr. It is a tragedy, but look for yourself the chaos and danger he put himself in. Find the link to the video on the site below.
2006-10-31 07:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by AdkGuide 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murder.
2006-10-30 23:30:50 · answer #3 · answered by Reba K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was he the one covering the drug lords and their influence into Mexicos' politics?
I know there was a reporter who was gunned down about a year ago...they never found his killers but the mexican police were suspected.
2006-10-30 23:30:34 · answer #4 · answered by dstr 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm opposed to murder.
2006-10-30 23:32:01 · answer #5 · answered by ML 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋