This Time, on the
14-Month-Old Arrest Warrant that Still Hangs Over the Heads of 72 Other
Citizens
By Al Giordano
The Other
Journalism with the Other Campaign in
One day after citizens of San
Blas Atempa marched against
police brutality and repression,
Photo: D.R.
2006 Bertha Rodríguez Santos |
Salud – who was arrested and freed the same day on February
19, in a bizarre police raid on his motor-car (a three-wheeled taxi that is the
favored form of public transportation between San Blas
Atempa and nearby Tehuantepec)
in which police brazenly planted a pistol and cocaine on the dissident – was
arrested again today after attending a protest march in Tehuantepec
organized by the teachers’ union named Sección 22.
Salud marched in solidarity with the teachers this
afternoon and then boarded a taxi. Police stopped the cab, placed him under
arrest, and brought him directly to the “Center for Social Rehabilitation”
(CERESO, in its Spanish initials) where he joins nine other San Blaseños that Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos has said are
being “held hostage” by Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz
Ortiz in an attempt to quell the pro-democracy movement there.
The latest pretext to put
this social fighter behind bars is a 14-month-old arrest warrant stemming from
the day on
Last February 6, the
Zapatista spokesman known as “Delegate Zero” visited San Blas
Atempa and vowed “a national rebellion like what you
did in San Blas,” and the next day Marcos visited
with five political prisoners from the town in the federal penitentiary in Tehuantepec (those visits are recorded in the Other
Newsreel, “Marcos Goes to Jail”).
Last week, the Other
Journalism visited with Nicanor Salud
and interviewed him for an upcoming video newsreel. To be continued…
Source:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue40/article1680.html