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A family holds a sign to protest the presence of federal police officers, in background, in Oaxaca City, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. President Vicente Fox ordered the use of federal police to intervene in the city after more than five months of protests and violence. Sign reads, "Oaxaca is not an army base. Army out" (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Mexican federal police push back a protester holding a Mexican flag as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
A barricade set up by protesters burns in downtown Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) |
A woman kisses the coffin of New York journalist Bradley Roland Will Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006, during his funeral services in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Will was shot to death late Friday in Oaxaca, in the latest violence in this historic Mexican city. The clashes occurred Friday as leftist protesters barricaded streets as part of a five-month-old campaign to oust the governor. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
A protester confronts federal police as they enter downtown Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) |
A protester confronts federal police as he holds a slingshot as the security forces arrive at downtown Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) |
People walking on the highway in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. Protesters cut off highways and beefed up street barricades in the southern city of Oaxaca on Friday, vowing not to abandon their fight to oust the state governor even though their movement appears to be splintering. The blockade of four main roads into this colonial city, one of Mexico's top tourist destinations, came a day after teachers agreed to end their five-month-old strike that has kept 1.3 million children out of classes in the state of Oaxaca - a move expected to take the sting out of the anti-government protests. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Oaxaca's Popular Assembly (APPO) members prepare molotov cocktails as they wait for the federal forces in downtown, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006, in Oaxaca City, Mexico. Shop owners closed their businesses and demonstrators built up street barricades Saturday after President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this city torn by more than five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) |
A man is seen holding a rifle after clashes erupted between unidentified gunmen and protesters who are demanding the resignation of Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday Oct. 27, 2006. At least one journalist was shot dead and several people were injured. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz Hernandez) |
A supporter of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca walks by a statue of national hero Benito Juarez in Oaxaca City, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006. President Vicente Fox announced Saturday he was sending federal police into the violence-wracked southern state capital of Oaxaca after a U.S. journalist and two Mexican men were shot to death. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |
A woman walks on a park as Federal Police airplanes and helicopters are seen at the Oaxaca's airport after they arrive to the City, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006, in Mexico. Shop owners shuttered their businesses and residents braced for possible street battles Saturday after President Vicente Fox announced he was deploying federal police to Oaxaca, a normally picturesque city torn apart by five-plus months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) |
A woman stands next to the coffin of teacher Emilio Alonso Fabian in Oaxaca City, Mexico, Saturday Oct. 28 2006. Alonso Fabian was shot to death late Friday in Oaxaca, in the latest violence in this historic Mexican city. The clashes occurred Friday as leftist protesters barricaded streets as part of a five-month-old campaign to oust the governor. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) |