New Activist Organization Seeks National Movement Against Pena Nieto and Pact for Mexico Rodolfo Montes and Oscar Rodriguez - Milenio
go to original June 25, 2013

OAXACA, Oaxaca - The rebellion is back. But this time its aim is to transcend Oaxaca and "become the embryo of a general insurrection in all of Mexico" and position itself in the international arena by means of trips abroad.

In June 2006, this movement first showed its face under the name of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), when then Governor Ulises Ruiz ordered the evacuation of the central plaza of Oaxaca that had been occupied by teachers of Section 22 of the National Coordinating Committee of Education Workers [CNTE], sparking a scenario of confrontations between police forces and the movement.

There were five long months of merciless war, barricades, rockets, blood and death. Now, seven years later, the APPO is taken out of the trunk of history and renamed the United Front for Social Struggle (Fulus).

... Fulus's demands are varied, but all combine in one direction: "to confront the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, its structural reforms such as in education, labor and energy; and his buddies in the misnamed Pact for Mexico, which ended up pulverizing the opposition."

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