Police operation in Oaxacas "transparent": Mexican president
31/10/2006 16:42
Mexican President Vicente Fox said yesterday that he considered as
"transparent" the operation of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP) to retake
Oaxaca City's historical center.
On Sunday night, 6,000 PFP officers took
back the control of the city from protestors who had been occupying it since
May, following Saturday's armed clashes that left at least three people dead,
eight more injured and some 50 in jail.
"One can say (the operation) was part
of a democratic dialogue, the seeking of agreements and the implementation of
order, and respect for the law," Fox told media.
The PFP, which took the city
center in day light without the use of arms, neither killed nor wounded anyone,
he said.
Fox, who will leave office on Nov. 30, said that the operation was
overseen by the country's National Commission for Human Rights and Interior
Ministry officials.
The five-month-long protests began with a teachers'
strike for higher pay. In June, the strikers took over government offices
demanding the resignation of Oaxaca State Governor Ulises Ruiz, whom they said
had gone too far in putting down the demonstrations.
Also on Monday, Ruiz
told a local radio that "errors had been committed," adding that his
administration would continue talks with the central government, "because this
is part of the willingness of my government to reach agreements."
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