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Subject: "We also ask for international solidarity to break the silence in the face of so much repression"
From: George Salzman <george.salzman@umb.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:13:09 -0500
To: OSAG <oaxacastudyactiongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Oaxaca, la cara del fascismo mexicano, sabado el 14 de abril de 2007
Oaxaca, the face of Mexican fascism, Saturday 14 April 2007
Friends,
I am removing OSAG from my e-mail distribution list to avoid
posting items not immediately related to Oaxaca, as I was asked to do.
If you wish to also get such mailings (for example the
Zionist-orchestrated attempt to prevent open discussion of the
Israel-Palestine conflict by getting Norman G. Finkelstein fired from
De Paul University), please let me know and I'll add your name to my
list. Thanks. George
Subject: DETENCIÓN DE DAVID VENEGAS, "EL
ALEBRIJE"
From: Sergio Beltrán <yeyoenoax@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:53:12 -0500
FAVOR DE DIFUNDIR Y ESTAR ATENTOS A LAS PRÓXIMAS ACCIONES
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. 13 de abril de 2007.
3:00 de la tarde
PRESENTACIÓN INMEDIATA Y CON VIDA DE DAVID VENEGAS REYES, CONCEJAL DE LA APPO, INTEGRANTE DE
VOCAL Y
ADHERENTE DE LA
OTRA CAMPAÑA
El día de hoy fue detenido
nuestro compañero David Venegas Cruz, "el Alebrije", concejal de la APPO (Asamblea
Popular de los
Pueblos de Oaxaca) y miembro de VOCAL (Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo
Autonomía
y Libertad).
Alrededor
de la 1:10 de la tarde caminaba por el parque Juárez "El Llano" hacia
la asamblea del Consejo Estatal de la APPO, cuando fue detenido por elementos
de la
Policía Ministerial
del Estado de Oaxaca. Hasta estos momentos no ha sido presentado en
ningún
lugar. Las autoridades de la Policía Ministerial
niegan haber detenido a
nuestro compañero pese al testimonio de testigos que presenciaron los
hechos. No sabemos nada sobre su estado
físico y emocional.
Subject:
Arrest of David Venegas, “El Alebrije” [alebrijes are carved and elaborately painted
figurines, wooden figures of animals and imaginary creatures widely
sold to
tourists in Oaxaca, and
exported.
Made from the wood of copal trees, I’ve been told that the copal trees
are
threatened and artisans must go further and further up into the
mountains to
find remaining trees. For some reason, David Venegas has the unusual
nickname El Alebrije.]
From: Sergio Beltran
<yeyoenoas@gmail.com>
Date:
Fro. 13 Apr 2007 16:53:12 -0500
Please
distribute [this message] and be attentive for the next actions
Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. 13
April 2007.
3:00
in the afternoon
[We
demand] the immediate presentation, alive, of David Venegas Reyes,
council
member of the APPO, member of VOCAL and adherent of the Other Campaign
Today
our companion David Venegas Cruz,
“el Alebrije”, council member of the APPO (Popular Assembly of the
Peoples of Oaxaca) and member of
VOCAL (Oaxacan Voices Constructing
Autonomy and Liberty),
was arrested.
He
was arrested by agents of the Oaxaca
State Ministerial Police at about 1:10 in the afternoon as he was
walking in
the Juárez park “Llano” towards the assembly of the State Council of
APPO. Up
to this moment he hasn’t been presented anywhere. The Ministerial
Police
authorities deny having arrested our companion in spite of the
testimony of
witnesses who were present at the event. We know
nothing about his physical and emotional state.
Dada la
práctica anticonstitucional de las instituciones policiacas, tememos
por la
vida y la integridad de nuestro compañero David Venegas Cruz.
Denunciamos
desde estos momentos la falta de elementos judiciales para detener a
nuestro
compañero y aclaramos que su única labor ha sido haber participado en
el
movimiento social legítimo del pueblo oaxaqueño, por lo cual no debe
ser
acusado de ningún delito que quiera ensuciar su imagen
de luchador social.
Ante estos
hechos VOCAL convocará a movilizaciones por la inmediata liberación de
nuestro compañero, pues estos hechos son una muestra más de la política
de
represión contra el movimiento social de todo el pueblo de Oaxaca.
Given the anticonstitutional
practices of the police institutions, we are fearful for the life and
the
integrity of our companion David Venegas Cruz.
We
denounce from this moment the failure of
judicial agents for arresting our companion and we clarify that his
only work
has been participating in the legitimate social movement of the Oaxacan
people,
for which he doesn’t need to be accused of any crime that seeks to
dirty his
image as a social struggler.
In
the face of these acts VOCAL will
convoke mobilizations for the immediate liberation of our companion.
These acts
then are another demonstration of the political repression against the
social
movement of all the people of Oaxaca.
Responsabilizamos
de cualquier agresión en contra de nuestro compañero al señor Daniel
Camarena
Flores, director de la Policía Ministerial del Estado de
Oaxaca, que en el año 1977
mientras era director de Policía Preventiva reprimió salvajemente al
movimiento
estudiantil; al señor Evencio Martinez Ramirez, hoy Procurador de
Justicia del
Estado y que en 1998 fungía como presidente de la Comision Estatal
de Derechos Humanos, que reprimió al movimiento social de Oaxaca desde
ese
puesto; al señor Sergio Segrestes Ríos, Secretario de Seguridad
Pública, que
también desde su anterior puesto de presidente de la Comisión Estatal
de Derechos Humanos reprimió al pueblo oaxaqueño; y por último al señor
Ulises
Ruiz Ortiz gobernador ilegítimo del Estado de Oaxaca.
A los
compañeros de La
Otra Campaña, del magisterio democrático oaxaqueño y
al pueblo de
Oaxaca, les pedimos su solidaridad para demandar la libertad inmediata
de
nuestro compañero. Pedimos también la solidaridad internacional para
romper el
silencio ante tanta represión para el pueblo de Oaxaca y lograr la
libertad de nuestro
compañero.
For any aggression
against our companion we hold Mr. Daniel
Camarena Flores responsible. Director of the Oaxaca State
Ministerial Police, in 1977 while he was director of the Preventive
Police he
savagely repressed the student movement. Also Mr. Evencio Martinez
Ramirez,
today the State Attorney General who in 1998 served as president of the
State
Human Rights Commission, who, from that position, repressed the social
movement
in Oaxaca. Also Mr. Sergio Segrestes Ríos, Secretary of Public
Security, who
also fro his previous post as president of the State Human Rights
Commission
repressed the Oaxaca
people. And finally Mr. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the illegitimate governor of
Oaxaca State.
To the companions of The Other Campaign, the democratic Oaxacan
teaching
profession and the people of Oaxaca,
we ask your solidarity in asking for the immediate liberty of our
companion. We
also ask for international solidarity to break the silence in the face
of so
much repression, for the people of Oaxaca
and to gain the freedom of our companion.
EXIGIMOS
¡Presentación inmediata y con vida del
compañero DAVID VENEGAS REYES!
¡Respeto a su integridad física y emocional!
¡Libertad inmediata para DAVID VENEGAS REYES y todos los presos y presas
políticas en Oaxaca!
Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad (VOCAL)
WE DEMAND
Immediate
presentation of our
companion David Venegas Reyes alive!
Respect for his
physical and
emotional integrity!
Immediate liberty
for David Venegas
Reyes and all political prisoners in Oaxaca!
Oaxacan Voices
Constructing Autonomy
and Liberty
(VOCAL)
vocal@riseup.net
http://giss.tv:8000/radiodisturbio.mp3
--
"DIOS, ME AMO"
(I don’t
know how to translate this ‘signature’. Sergio, what does it mean?)
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