March on December 22nd

In solidarity with the EZLN and the “Other Campaign“, APPO held a march on December 22nd to reinforce their demand for the resignation of Governor Ulises Ruiz and the freedom of all political prisoners. Similar demonstrations were held throughout the country and in other parts of the world as an international day of solidarity. The PFP have left the Zócalo, but city and other preventive police surrounded the zócalo with barbed wire to prevent any violence. The march was led by the recently released prisoners. While chanting for the removal of Ulises, the protestors also called the leader of the Educator’s Union Section 22, Rueda Pacheco, a traitor to the movement. The talk of the creation of a new local section, Section 59, has the potential to divide the organization. However, a representative of the APPO organizations, Juan Sosa Maldonado, stated that this movement is made of bases, not of leaders. Florentino López Martínez, another representative of APPO stated that Ulises Ruiz is trying to divide APPO and the teachers by encouraging the creation of Section 59 of SNTE, however Martínez claims that the teachers in this new group represent a small minority.

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