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Aug. 21, 2006, 1:36PM
Striking teachers seize 12 radio stations in Mexico
By REBECA ROMERO
Associated Press
OAXACA, Mexico — Striking teachers armed with pipes, wood planks and clubs seized 12 private radio stations in Mexico's southern Oaxaca state early today after unidentified assailants shot up a government-owned station already under the strikers' control.
"We're fed up with neoliberalism," one said, using a term for free-market economics. "We are fed up gringo ecotourism."
The state capital, Oaxaca City, 520 kilometers (325 miles) southeast of Mexico City, attracts thousands of Mexican and foreign tourists each year with its colonial architecture and local Indian crafts. But since the strike, which has completely paralyzed the city's center, tourism revenues have suffered.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4131020.html
Mexico anyone?
Striking teachers seize 12 radio stations in Mexico
By REBECA ROMERO
Associated Press
OAXACA, Mexico — Striking teachers armed with pipes, wood planks and clubs seized 12 private radio stations in Mexico's southern Oaxaca state early today after unidentified assailants shot up a government-owned station already under the strikers' control.
"We're fed up with neoliberalism," one said, using a term for free-market economics. "We are fed up gringo ecotourism."
The state capital, Oaxaca City, 520 kilometers (325 miles) southeast of Mexico City, attracts thousands of Mexican and foreign tourists each year with its colonial architecture and local Indian crafts. But since the strike, which has completely paralyzed the city's center, tourism revenues have suffered.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4131020.html
Mexico anyone?