Ulises Ruiz “Used Mercenaries to Keep Himself in Power,” According to USA Documents Obtained by Mile

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By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

http://narconews.com/Issue61/article3911.html

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1. VERY interesting reading for anyone who followed the Oaxaca teachers' strike and general uprising!

This Bushwhack appointee's secret memos to Washington are surprisingly low on Bushwhacky cant and are rather informative--confirming the local view of Gov. Ruiz in Oaxaca (which I never doubted, actually) as a thug with little support who was employing mercenaries to enforce fascist rule, and also Ruiz's and Calderon's use of corrupt labor unionists to crush the genuine teachers' labor movement (--something we should keep in mind when reading about rightwing use of corrupt unions in Venezuela, on a number of occasions).

I don't see any justification whatsoever for redacting portions of these memos and keeping them secret for "30 years." What was the US doing in Mexico in 2006 that needs to be kept secret? Nothing good, or for our benefit, or for the benefit of the Mexican people, we can be sure. Memos on the rigging of the 2005 election? Memos on how to privatize Mexico's oil? Memos on CIA thugs among those mercenaries?

This is another excellent piece of reporting by Nancy Davies and Narco News. Thanks for drawing my attention to it!

Oaxaca Resiste!

Viva la revolución!

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2. I particularly liked this part.

"The word-choice “radical groups” presents the US perspective in a nutshell: anyone struggling for some level of social or economic justice against a government in the hip-pocket of the USA."