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Grinding poverty, corruption, and electoral fraud have turned Mexico into a cauldron of social unrest. Nowhere has this been more acute than in the state of Oaxaca. A botched attempt to crush a massive teachers’ strike last June led to open rebellion against the state government.

After over five months of open insurrection, the federal government finally sent in the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) on October 29 to quell the revolt. They used as pretext the death of an American IndyMedia reporter Brad Will and two other protesters who were killed by police thugs.

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