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How much money received in 2007 the unions to buy social peace?

InSurGente .- Not all workers know that unions (eye, as well as business organizations) receive many millions of part of the Government of the day. InSurGente .- Not all workers know that unions (eye, as well as business organizations) receive many millions of part of the Government of the day. No, we are not talking about the money by holding courses (some of these never occur), but cash for carrying out "activities at the union." No, we are not talking about the money by holding courses (some of these never occur), but cash for carrying out "activities at the union." The amounts are the official, appearing on the BOE. The amounts are the official, appearing on the BOE. If they click on "Read more" mean then, the role of unions, once called class and today simply subsidized. If they click on "Read more" mean then, the role of unions, once called class and today simply subsidized.


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The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs granted during the year 2007 by a grant amounting to 6.29 million at CCOO, almost 235,000 euros above the amount that surrendered UGT, which received 6.06 million euros for the conduct of an association, according to a resolution published today in the Official State Bulletin (BOE). The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs granted during the year 2007 by a grant amounting to 6.29 million at CCOO, almost 235000 euros above the amount that surrendered UGT, which received 6.06 million euros for the conduct of an association, according to a resolution published today in the Official State Bulletin (BOE).

For its part, the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) received more than 2.09 million euros for his participation in the consultative bodies of the department who heads Jesus Caldera, its autonomous agencies and the managing body of the Social Security System. For its part, the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) received more than 2.09 million euros for his participation in the consultative bodies of the department who heads Jesus Caldera, its autonomous agencies and the managing body of the Social Security System.

In this chapter, union CCOO In this chapter, union CCOO and UGT also received financial compensation for their participation in consultative bodies that UGT was 1.14 million, while in the case of CCOO And UGT also received financial compensation for their participation in consultative bodies that UGT was 1.14 million, while in the case of CCOO amounted to 981,760 euros. Amounted to EUR 981760.

Thus, CCOO Thus, CCOO received a total of 7.28 million hands of the Ministry of Labor between subsidies and compensation, while UGT entered his mind a total of 7.21 billion euros. Received a total of 7.28 million hands of the Ministry of Labor between subsidies and compensation, while UGT entered his mind a total of 7.21 billion euros.

That resolution states that the subsidies to the trade unions in 2007 are awarded 'in proportion to their representation by the activities of an association'. That resolution states that the subsidies to the trade unions in 2007 are awarded 'in proportion to their representation by the activities of an association'.

CCOO and UGT ELA-STV, THE GREATER SUBSIDIES. UGT and CCOO ELA-STV, THE GREATER SUBSIDIES.

CCOO CCOO and UGT perceived more substantial subsidies for the development of its union work. UGT and received more substantial subsidies for the development of its union work. Following these formations was placed Euzco Langilleen Alkartasuna Basque Workers Solidarity (ELA-STV), which received 497,300 euros, which is in addition to other 70,449 euros for the aforementioned compensation for participation in the consultative bodies, ie, it was a total of 567,749 euros. Following these formations was placed Euzco Langilleen Alkartasuna Basque Workers Solidarity (ELA-STV), which received 497300 euros, which is in addition to other 70449 euros for the aforementioned compensation for participation in the consultative bodies, ie, it was a total of EUR 567749 .

The following posts in the 'ranking' subsidies occupying Union Sindical Obrera (USO), which received 487,084 euros, followed by Central Independent Unions and Officers (CSI CSIF) with 342,559 euros Confederation Inter Galician (IGC) with 273,539 euros and Workers Trade Unions Federation Langille Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB) with 216,302 euros. The following posts in the 'ranking' subsidies occupying Union Sindical Obrera (USO), which received 487084 euros, followed by Central Independent Unions and Officers (CSI CSIF) with 342559 euros Confederation Inter Galician (IGC) with 273539 euros and Workers Trade Unions Federation Langille Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB) with 216302 euros.

He then fell Federation of Independent Trade Workers FETICO with 206,951 euros General Confederation of Labour (CGT) with 204,951 euros and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Education State Spanish-FSIE with 138,688 euros. He then fell Federation of Independent Trade Workers FETICO with EUR 206951 General Confederation of Labour (CGT) with 204951 euros and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Education State Spanish-FSIE with 138688 euros. The Ministry also gave 42 other trade unions subsidies less than 90,000 euros. The Ministry also gave 42 other trade unions subsidies less than 90000 euros.

PARTICIPATION IN ADVISORY BODIES. PARTICIPATION IN ADVISORY BODIES.

The Ministry also gave the aforementioned financial compensation for participating in its advisory bodies, their autonomous agencies and entities managing Social Security - in addition to CEOE, UGT, CCOO and ALS-STV - at the Confederation Inter Galega ( 62,107 euros), the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds (60,592 euros), the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of Guipuzkoa (2,199 euros), the Association of Merchant Marine Spanish (1.819,92 euros) and USE (1,819 euros). The Ministry also gave the aforementioned financial compensation for participating in its advisory bodies, their autonomous agencies and entities managing Social Security - in addition to CEOE, UGT, CCOO and ALS-STV - at the International Confederation Galega (62107 euros), the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds (60592 euros), the National Federation of Fishermen's Guilds of Guipuzkoa (2199 euro), the Association of Merchant Marine Spanish (1.819,92 euros) and USE (1819 euros).

communique EPR Mexico

THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO
THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
ORGANIZATIONS TO SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND REVOLUCIONARIAS
SISTERS, BROTHERS, CAMARADAS!

Aclaremos, gentlemen of the illegitimate government of Calderon, because it seems they do not understand or do not want to understand despite evidence contradicting As declare:

Our campaign of harassment began on July 5 last year, is not against the people of Mexico, as he says fraudulently. Francisco Ramirez Acuna through the Directorate General of Social Communication, on December 7, 2007 in its Bulletin. 331-07/12/2007, is directed against his government to effectively 1) to denounce the demise of our colleagues Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Amaya Alberto Cruz Sanchez, missing detainees by their federal agents and by extension Jose Francisco Ruiz Paredes; 2) require their life and liberty; 3) to end the impunity with which his government by "legitimate use of force" constantly violates the human rights of social fighters, and 4) so that through an amnesty law all released and all political prisoners and conscience of the country.

Felipe Calderon Hinojosa is developing the dirty war against the people of Mexico organized, (if he had not been informed) from the time they closed the possibility of Luis Echeverria Alvarez was judged on its responsibility and blame for the crimes committed by the army against the student movement of 1968, the halconazo against young students on 10 June 1971 and the dirty war against guerrillas during his six years, from the moment he gave freedom to Arturo Acosta Chaparro, murderer brought by the families of their victims and perpetrators of hundreds of disappearances in the state of Guerrero against guerrillas of the Party of the Poor and their families. As such, all governments until today are accomplices of genocidal Echeverria, solapándole impunity.

The dirty war is not a euphemism, is an active component of the War of Low Intensity that his government has been developing since the time that blanket impunity with the governors of the state of Mexico, Puebla, Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca and in collusion with the shameful Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN), since it does not feel jurisprudence and not front and resolutely combat the violation of human rights of a journalist, writer and defender of human rights and paedophilia, allowing collusion between the "authorities", corrupt officials and businessmen and degenerate that degrade the lives of our people and above all are preying on the innocence of our children, destroying their future, since it took to "discuss and consider" if extended investigating the brutal repression in Oaxaca.

Just one violation to the human rights of any citizen, anywhere in the country, just one enforced disappearance for "their" government becomes inscribed in history as a government that does not respect the human rights of its people, neither the Government, nor democracy nor justice, or how many human rights violations and to what extent that would accumulate to be considered as such and SCJN serious consideration?

How should call those who violated their human rights? Is not Lydia Cacho Ribeiro a victim of injustice brought about by the same SCJN?, Did not suffer Flavio Sosa Villavicencio of APPO and his brothers, nor David Vega Zamarripa and Hilario Vega Zamarrita, leaders of section 49 of the Cadereyta refinery, missing 6 and May 7, nor Paredes Jose Francisco Ruiz, a former political prisoner who belonged to the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAF) disappeared on 26 September in Morelia, Mich.. nor who were arrested with "unnecessary rudeness" for having belonged to PROCUP-PDLP? All of these human rights violations have occurred in the nascent sexenio Mr. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa not to mention those occurring with Vicente Fox and us "balancing the argument" are part of the implementation of the dirty war and is not only against our party, it is essentially against the whole people organized.

Can They call "restore the rule of law" to the departure of the army barracks to conduct an activity not indicated by our Constitution, how "restore the state of law" to the army to continue training and arming of paramilitary groups on all in the state of Chiapas? Is not militarized Chiapas, Chihuahua, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Veracruz to name just a few states?

Is it not a deliberate criminal policy of the federal government reform the judicial system delivered in March to the Legislature by Felipe Calderon, "Do you want to say that whatever happens as a result of the functions that have forced the army to carry out will remain classified as "incidents" and who continue to suffer from their repugnant actions is our people as it is today with the murder of a couple in a retention military Michoacan?

Judicial reform has been proposed that FCH challenged by renowned defenders of Human Rights, respectable lawyers, NGOs prestigious national and international, not just for our PDPR-RPA and has been unmasked as a major setback for the respect of human rights . Have they not read the reports of AI, the IACHR, CEJIL yet?, Does not have analyzed sesudamente between the lines and national newspapers lately?

"Unfortunately in Mexico" ... Those who do not have "a more entrenched culture of legality" are institutions like the AFI, the PFP, SIEDO, the SSP or PGR, SEDENA, SRA, the Ministry of Environment covered by those laws-more-missing violentan its much vaunted rule of law.

The rule of law today is a state law that preserves the interests of capital, let's see: How many achievements in the past have not been wiped out by the current reforms to the Social Security Law and the Law on ISSSTE? Only by appoint the most representative. Who benefits such reforms?, All acts of repression is presented as a duty of the State.

The law against organized crime in the present state of law is a law that includes social protest in the category of organized crime, as a result social fighters are treated as criminals of organized crime, because the crimes they are accused of are crimes ordinary trying to distort their participation in social protest, and the State uses violence legitimized by this law-enforcement anything-not only against them but against his family and friends, his "environment" as they say in the manuals of the GBI. After hearing from all social protest law violates their state laws unless they lead by the narrow margin of mobilizing peaceful and passive resistance that has led us to the current situation.

There would be no criminalization of social protest if the state government FCH in the "legitimate use of force" laws reformed to serve the interests of the people of Mexico and not the interests of the oligarchy domestic and foreign.

His proposal for judicial reform is the only thing that tries to legalize all violations that continue to be committed, especially against social fighters, to criminalize social protest de facto cancels the rights enshrined in our Constitution to try to legitimize actions police-military blatantly violate constitutional rights.

We will insist as many times as necessary to point out that we are not part of organized crime, we are revolutionaries, social fighters that before the irrational attitude of this government that is continually violating our rights gives us the legitimate right of self-defence actions. It is the recognition of our people and we are a fraternal peoples belligerent insurgent force, and as such we welcome the Geneva Treaties. Those in the House of Representatives and Senators who are party to approve judicial reform proposed by Calderon that criminalizes protest, social struggle and acts of self-defense must assume responsibility for the consequences of their actions. Instead of adopting aberrations should immediately enact a general amnesty for all and the freedom of all political prisoners in the country.

Saying that the government FCH "is not pursued or prosecuted for any social activist to be" is a fallacy, is that there are hundreds of political prisoners, and to this date the disappearance of more than 28 people in the state of Guerrero, Francisco Ruiz and the walls of the Vega brothers Zamarripa addition to our fellow Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Amaya Alberto Cruz Sanchez, the latter being those that gave rise to our campaign of harassment as an act of self-defense to try to avoid reedite that the dirty war of the seventies to try and there is no more impunity.

The repressive acts of this government can spare and the most recent are: the arrest of more than 20 APPO sympathizers in the commemoration of a year in "the victory of All Saints' when retreated to the PFP; the arrest of John Franco Murguia Barzón leader of the Authentic Sonora and Alfonso Chaparro, leader of drivers of Hermosillo, the violent eviction of students from the Normal Rural Ayotzinapa demanding 75 seats and the permanence of a bachelor's degree in education, the military incursion in the municipality of Metlatonoc in the village of Juanacatlán, high in the mountains, Gro. In which arrested two pastors and tried catear houses, the continuous harassment paramilitary bases Zapatistas; aggression towards Mariana Villa Real, a partner in the areas of legal education and the Centre for Human Rights Fray Juan de Larios, Coahuila; aggressions against the bishop of Saltillo, Raul Vera, and the recent police-military raid against strikers Cananea, under the auspices of the corrupt Board of Conciliation and Arbitration.

The conviction that received Ignacio del Valle and his colleagues of 67 years in prison-are much higher than those of criminals, organized crime is also an element of the GBI and mercilessly punishing the organization and social protest to set a precedent and try paralyse popular protests.
The arrest-disappearance, torture and rape carried out against the people arrested in Oaxaca, and their dispatch to prison so far away from his home city is an integral part of the dirty war, as well as the aforementioned judicial reform if approved comes to legalize the abuses during this government have been given continuity. What invention? Only been describing a repressive reality that affects not only our party but for trade unions, workers, peasants, indigenous people's generally every citizen who dares to organize and protest.

War is dirty censorship of being subjected journalist Carmen Aristegui who severally to salute him and say that neither listen to the W.

Gentlemen government of Felipe Calderon, we are now certain that our colleagues Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Amaya Alberto Cruz Sanchez-disappeared were arrested by federal agents, if we knew the names of those who carried out this action and know exactly where they are, you would no longer be and whether in the government officials responsible both federal and state of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz as overly-protected by Felipe Calderon Hinojosa who despite their differences come together as it comes to safeguard their political and economic interests in holy crusade to suppress - is because the people are part of the Mexican state, policy makers and developers responsible for the activities of their military and police forces. There is no need to stain their hands or give an order expresses the human rights violations of the Mexican people due to a strategy that is supposed to be dictated by Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, or failing that by the governments in power that there are over him.

As wonder: Who governs in Mexico, "Does the government but not legally constituted legitimate or the governments in power that imposed Felipe Calderon Hinojosa? Because if FCH is president of the Republic "as haiga been haiga been" lacks really take dediciones in favor of the people, "haiga been as haiga been", and must submit to our fellow Edmundo and Gabriel Francisco, David and Hilary, "haiga been as haiga been."

How can rely on a Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuna? When relying on the rule of law to say that "... That is reason enough for the Federal Government to investigate the alleged disappearance of the two people in that organization." When I was governor of Jalisco, ordered the repression, torture, harassment and rape against young altermundistas foreign chilangos were saying that they had "altered the order," as well as to domestic and foreign journalists thus demonstrating its penchant for the violation of Human Rights.

Not that he imported were young, she did not mind whether they were men or women, nor will they were innocent imported completely unrelated to the protest that was giving only prevailed its commitment to its alleged rule of law. Who does not tell us that today is an accomplice of detention-demise of our colleagues and try to heal health?, As do the PAN and the PRI to deny the existence of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in our country, then what real possibility that deputies and senators of the PAN and PRI adopt a general amnesty law, as is the popular demand? Gentlemen, are consistent with their attitude and say clearly that they are defending interests and therefore represent.

Every law that approves or not the Legislature has a specific impact on our people, the majority numerically make the PRI and the PAN then, does Aprobarían a general amnesty law even when-according to his Bulletin-exist?

There is no point denying that FRA our fellow Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Amaya Alberto Cruz Sanchez were arrested by officers of the AFI and say that we ourselves do not know what happened to them, trying to contrainformar public opinion, this is nothing more than the application - precisely-the dirty war, as part of the implementation of the low-intensity war to try to shirk its responsibility in this crime against humanity.

That has responded as it did, taking advantage of media coverage to the publication of a "final communiqué" ours, it portrays whole body on the ground that it would no longer be part of our response, ordering a media campaign for its alleged Truth be like last public impression.

First is our claim that the filing with life and liberty of our colleagues is not being cared for, they are trying to make their way within the rule of law to hold who knows whom, and you know where each other are our partners and those detained, or is it that they did not go to PGJ of Oaxaca and questioned the officials on duty from May 25, where they found more than a witness?

Second, the dirty war there, the facts that we pointed out repeatedly today to not omit or forget, are:

Two of our colleagues Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Amaya Alberto Cruz Sanchez-disappeared were arrested by federal agents on May 25, which led to our Campaign of Harassment in the same period were also missing detainees Gilberto Romero Vazquez, Baltazar Lopez Pita and Rafael Ramirez Baptist in the state of Guerrero and Roberto Paredes Nieto in the State of Mexico, after the September 23 participate in the commemoration of the Assault Wood Barracks, went missing on September 26 to another social fighter Francisco Paredes Ruiz and subsequently disappeared David and Hilary Vega Zamarripa, social fighters also, over 28 missing in the state of Guerrero who is not only state responsibility, which you began an offensive against social fighters without imagined that this time it would have a response self-defense on our part.

Thirdly, what moral authority has the federal government say that our Democratic Party-Popular Revolutionary Popular Revolutionary Army should suspend its campaign of harassment if their sin is being imposed by a fraud of origin to continue ruling with neoliberal policies against the Mexican people through authoritarianism and militarization of the country, the result of a fascist tendency.

If it is true that "... The Federal Government has a commitment to society of providing security to all Mexicans and giving full effect to the rule of law. "

That starts today!

First, to introduce our two colleagues missing detainees as well as all social fighters who are also missing detainees.

Second, release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the country whose existence is denied in its definition even contrary to the reports of national and international agencies defenders of Human Rights and popular organizations. Political prisoners who should not be in criminal extermination maximum security, it would be moved to other prisons where they have the opportunity to further develop their creative strengths, as a prelude to the general amnesty law in a gesture of capacity policy of the current government.

Thirdly, that complies with the demands set out in our party communiqué issued on September 18, 2007 and ratified in the communiqué of October 2, 2007.

Finally we communicate to our people that operate anywhere in the Mexican Republic, moments before the government knows of our action to prevent loss of life as if there would be the responsibility of government.

Remember to take into account the morale of the revolutionary, but their supposed principles not conception, is prudence and wisdom. But they also have limits which do not submit to our colleagues who are you oblige us to do more self-defence actions. Reiterate how much longer we have to wait or endure…? Because among our people, and militant fighters and there is a strong determination not to wait any longer with such impunity, How dare say with so much cynicism that our PDPR-RPA is left with their hands crossed while our comrades are still being tortured and are not presented, and until this day are still committing crimes against humanity with the current disappearance of indigenous leader Lauro Juarez in the state of Oaxaca, are you. FRA and his government who do not "add up" the facts.

Today we strongly support a strong and our people who dares to reject this criminal act against the Mexican countryside through NAFTA, and people will respond and this needs to respond to violent acts of this government according to their ability and creativity before the onslaught government. To combat by all means, for the cancellation of NAFTA!, Is the time for unity and to promote all forms of struggle no matter our own life to confront these facts perverse and anti.

We take the occasion of a new year to send a warm fraternal embrace all our comrades militants and fighters who make an effort every day either in the mountains or in the cities to give continuity to his political and military preparedness to respond adequately to any repression.

Wherever you are Edmundo and Gabriel have realised that it would not rest until taken back and will continue to fight because there is never an enforced disappearance.

LLEVARON THE LIVING IS, WE WANT TO LIVE!
A DEMAND FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE AND THE COUNTRY!
BY THE SUBMISSION OF ALL DETAINEES MISSING!

BY THE REVOLUTION SOCIALIST!
OVERCOME OR DIE!
BY OUR CAMARADAS PROLETARIOS!
DETERMINED TO OVERCOME!
POPULAR WITH THE WAR!
THE TRIUNFARA EPR!
CENTRAL COMMITTEE
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Mexican rebels warn they will continue attacks

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican rebel group that claimed responsibility for several gas pipeline bombings in 2007 said it will continue carrying out attacks but will issue warnings ahead of time to avoid casualties.

The Revolutionary People's Army, or EPR, said Tuesday in a communique its attacks are against the government and not the Mexican people.

"The government will know about our actions so that the loss of human lives can be avoided and if there are any (deaths) then it will be the government's responsibility," it said.

Last year, EPR claimed responsibility for blasts at more than a half-dozen oil and natural gas ducts to demand the release of its members allegedly being held by the government.

The government denies it ever held or detained the two men.

The EPR emerged June 28, 1996, on the first anniversary of the killing of 17 leftist farm workers by police at Aguas Blancas in the southern state Guerrero.

It had carried out sporadic attacks, mostly against police stations in Guerrero and nearby Oaxaca state, until last year when it attacked the fuel pipelines, shutting down factories throughout Mexico.

Guerilla attack, anti-NAFTA actions in Mexico

On the morning of Jan. 3 a unit of 15 masked people armed with AK-47 rifles set fire to three backhoes belonging to the Constructora Torreblanca, a construction company building a highway in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. "No to the gas price increase!" and "Join the armed struggle!" were some of the slogans the group painted at the site, in Tixtla municipality, about 15 kilometers from Chilpancingo, the state capital. The company had the slogans removed, and news of the incident didn't become public until Jan. 5. No group took responsibility for the action, although the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR), the Revolutionary Army of the Insurgent People (ERPI) and other rebel groups have been active in Guerrero in the past. (La Jornada, Jan. 6) [It is not clear from news sources whether the company is linked to Guerrero governor Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo.]

The government has begun a policy of gradual increases in gasoline and energy prices, leading to fears of dramatic increases for staples, as happened in late 2006 and early 2007 before the government and industries agreed to a price stabilization plan that generally held tortillas at about 8.5 pesos ($0.78) a kilogram. But the price of tortillas has now risen to 9 pesos a kilogram in the southeastern state of Chiapas, according to Mario Coutino Fonseca, president of the Cornmeal and Tortilla Consulting Council of Chiapas, and the price of tortillas may go up by 20-30% nationally. (La Jornada, Jan. 6)

The upward pressure on prices comes just as tariffs end on corn, beans, sugar and powdered milk from Canada and the US under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In the last minutes of Dec. 31, in an unusual cold spell, some 100 campesinos began a 36-hour anti-NAFTA protest shutting down three of the four lanes on the Cordoba-Las Americas international bridge, which links Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, with El Paso, Texas. In Tuxtla, Gutierrez, capital of Chiapas, at least 10,000 campesinos marched on Jan. 2 to protest the change. Organizers said that since NAFTA started taking effect in 1994, the resulting damage to rural production has forced more than 300,000 Chiapas residents to immigrate to the US. (LJ, Jan. 2, 3)

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Activists march in Mexico City in support of missing rebels

MEXICO CITY: Hundreds of leftist activists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to demand the government provide information on the whereabouts of two members of a rebel group who went missing in May, purportedly after they were detained by security forces.

The government has denied it ever held or detained the two men, who had links to the leftist People's Revolutionary Army, or EPR, the guerrilla group that claimed responsibility for several recent bombings of gas pipelines.

The EPR has said in communiques that it will continue the attacks until the two men, Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Raymundo Rivera Bravo, are released. While the marchers distanced themselves from the EPR and its methods, they said the men had to be released in order for the attacks to end.

"The kidnappings themselves are generating the violence," said Hermenegildo Torres, who was once a member of an older rebel group known as PROCUP, widely viewed as a precursor of the EPR. "If they (the men) don't reappear, the bombings are going to continue."

Torres, like several other former members of the PROCUP — which was blamed for several bombings in the 1980s and early 1990s — said they are now involved in non-violent social development project.

An accused drug queen beguiles MexicoCIA chief orders internal inquiryTurkey condemns U.S. House vote on Armenian killingsAn Associated Press reporter at the scene estimated the number of protesters at about 500.

The government has formed a special anti-subversion task force in response to the Sept. 10 and July 11 attacks claimed by the EPR, which affected gas and oil deliveries and cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars (euros

Communique EPR-MEXICO

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TO THE TOWN OF MEXICO
TO THE TOWNS OF THE WORLD
TO THE ORGANISMS NONGOVERNMENTAL DEFENDERS OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS.
TO THE SOCIAL,POLITICAL,REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS
TO GENERAL CLANDESTINE COMMITTEE REVOLUTIONARY INDÍGENA-COMANDANCIA OF ARMY ZAPATISTA OF LIBERATION NACIONAL MEXICO.
INSURGENT SUBCOMMANDER MARKOS.

SISTERS, BROTHERS, COMRADES!


We make a reflection as we accustomed many years ago: the time is a good advisor and companion.

We are in territory chiapas and we have known of whenever continuously they have been harassed and often assassinated, and in spite of everything have maintained a praiseworthy resistance before these injustices.

For us, in all the divided organizations and groupings always an unequal development in the understanding of the historical phenomena will exist and often all we did not agree with the interpretation of this reality.

We raised it because from before they occurred to publicly know we have offered them our solidarity although modest and quiet by all the ways that they have crossed, in its passage by our zones of equal way and today we could not let do it.

We respected all the forms of fight, to all those that are in the left and were not used to judging all by. Sometimes, lamentably, the directions no matter how hard we wanted not we give account that is people who sabotage the initiatives and the norms that prevail to us, although this does not justify the errors and the offenses.

With we agreed in some things and sometimes we walked together without to integrate us but as a coincidence in the demands and this of some form we agreed with AMLO, Engineer Cardinal red and others more, to those who we respected like a you in spite of the differences and opinions that we received, for that reason return to repeat our better friend has been the time.

Nevertheless, although this one exists decomposition is not complete, no organization can excelsamente be pure, for that reason our respect by all those that are or was seen in the necessity to make nonviolent a fight pacific.

To you and we they have done violence to to us, have harassed to us, they have repressed to us and both we have seen ourselves in the necessity to raise the flags of the resistance.

Also as you know we had indigenous companions of several states of our country and other sectors which identifies to us in our demands.

Nevertheless, its exit worries to us and constant to walk reason why of different ways will continue having the solidarity of our party and army and we will try to avoid in maximum the some action that could jeopardize to them or affect to them. But we say to them that our harassment will continue if it is that this government insists on not presenting/displaying our companions, if is that who you call the political class they do not promote the freedom of all and all the political prisoners and of conscience of the country.

Go a handshake and a strong hug and fraterno as we accustomed in our party and the desire of which what they have seted out with the companions yaquis in Vicam, Sonant, renders its better fruits.

Hopefully it arrives our greeting and our affection fraterno towards you and all those that accompany them.

Neither a disappear the more, freedom and justice for all, fusing to us in a single effort, because the blood and the spirit of our ancestors invincible soldiers, run by our veins.

We took leave thanking for its solidarity.


ALIVE TOOK IT, ALIVE WE WANT THEM!
TO DEMAND THE FREEDOM OF ALL THE POLITICAL PRISONERS AND CONSCIENCE OF
COUNTRY!
BY THE PRESENTATION OF ALL THE MISSING PRISONERS!

BY THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!
TO WIN OR TO DIE!
BY OUR PROLETARIAN COMRADES!
SOLVED TO WIN!
WITH THE POPULAR WAR!
THE EPR PREVAILED!

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Year 43
Mexican Republic to 3 of October of 2007

Mexico rebels offer truce if activists released

MEXICO CITY, Oct 2 - Mexican rebel group EPR Said it would stop bombing fuel pipelines if affected businesses back its demands that the government release two missing activists, local media said on Tuesday.

In a statement, the Marxist-inspired Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, also demanded an amnesty for all political prisoners in Mexico, the daily El Universal reported in its online editions.

The daily Reforma and Mexican television also picked up the statement. A Web site that normally publishes statements from Latin American guerrilla groups, including the EPR, still was checking the authenticity of the statement.

The government repeatedly has denied it is holding the two activists, who the EPR says were captured in May in the volatile southern city of Oaxaca where the guerrilla group is based.

The two activists, one of whom is the brother of EPR leader Tiburcio Sanchez Cruz, had been living clandestinely for years.

"We repeat that when our companions are presented alive and free, all military political action will cease immediately and we will continue with the political work that we have always developed," Reforma quoted the EPR as saying.

The EPR bombed fuel pipelines in half a dozen places last month, disrupting crude oil supplies to two refineries and cutting off energy supplies to dozens of major industries, costing thousands of hours of production.

In Tuesday's statement, the EPR appealed to the businesses affected by the energy disruption to pressure the government about the missing activists.

The EPR, which calls for land reform and ultimately a socialist state, burst back into public view in July after years in hibernation with a similar set of pipeline attacks.

Believed to number just a few hundred members, the EPR made headlines in the mid-1990s with a string of lethal ambushes on rural police and army bases, but has been quiet for several years.

In Tuesday's statement the EPR denied it was using the disappearance of the activists to justify an intensification of their campaign, as has been suggested by some officials.

A grocer's secret life as a rebel

Missing Mexican man's family stunned to learn he's a revolutionary who helps bomb pipeline

MEXICO CITY–Edmundo Reyes is a slight, unassuming man of 55 who loves baseball and children's literature. Until recently, he sold candy and soft drinks from his family's corner grocery store in this city's Nezahualcoyotl district.

In May, he left to visit relatives in Oaxaca and never returned. His disappearance might have gone unnoticed but for the fact that it has set off a small war that has twice shut down a sizable chunk of the Mexican economy.

Apparently unbeknownst to his family and friends, Reyes was leading a double life: as a leader of a group calling itself "the Popular Revolutionary Army," also known by its Spanish initials: EPR. His comrades are convinced he has been captured by the "enemy.''

To force his return and that of another EPR militant said to have disappeared with him, EPR has started bombing pipelines owned by Pemex, the national oil company.

The attacks are the most spectacular campaign by a guerrilla army in Mexico since the 1994 uprising of the Zapatistas in the southern state of Chiapas.

Unlike the Zapatistas, EPR has struck at a critical element of Mexico's economic infrastructure: the pipelines that transport petroleum products from the Gulf of Mexico.

Attacks on 10 pipelines in July and this month forced the temporary closing of some of Mexico's largest factories, caused fuel shortages and pushed up the price of oil futures in New York. The economic losses caused by the bombings total hundreds of millions of dollars, according to business groups here.

Yet EPR is an "army" consisting of possibly fewer than 100 people, including several members of five extended families with roots in Oaxaca, according to analysts and Mexican officials.

Intelligence reports leaked to the Mexican media say the mild-mannered Reyes was an EPR leader.

"I'm not convinced that all the things they say about him are true," said Nadin Reyes Maldonado, his daughter and a 25-year-old nursery-school teacher. "But when he appears again, there are some things he's going to have to explain to us.''

The EPR launched itself publicly in 1996 in Guerrero, a Pacific Coast state with long traditions of armed resistance to the Mexican government. Masked members armed with assault rifles marched into the town of Aguas Blancas as local residents were gathering to commemorate the killings a year earlier of 17 members of a peasants' rights group by state police.

At the time, Mexico was already well into its transition from one-party state to a multi-party democracy. But to the EPR, Mexico remained a country of political impunity ruled on behalf of a wealthy few.

"Our political Constitution is ... a dead letter," read the first EPR communiqué, explaining the group's decision to take up arms. "Individual rights are violated every day, and the people are left out of the economic and political decisions of the country.''

Since then, the group has split several times. It now appears to be rooted farther south, in Oaxaca, a state where social inequities and a heavy-handed governing style have fed several militant movements.

Oaxaca remains one of the poorest states in Mexico: 68 per cent of its residents live below the Mexican government's poverty line, with monthly income less than $90. And more than one-third of the population is living in "extreme poverty," according to government statistics.

The EPR has bombed banks and other targets since 2001. Mexican authorities have identified most of the EPR leadership but have been unable to apprehend them, said Jose Luis Pineyro, a security expert at Metropolitan Autonomous University here.

"There was a failure of civilian and military intelligence here," Pineyro said. "The EPR increased their technical and military capacity. They expanded their support base. None of this was detected.''

Authorities said the devices used against the Pemex pipelines were made from a combination of plastic explosives and potassium nitrate, also known as saltpetre.

More impressive than the bombs themselves was the logistical sophistication of the operation: six targets struck simultaneously with 12 bombs.

"To do something like this, you have to have a minimal support base," said Jorge Chabat, an analyst at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching. "You need people who will protect you, hide you, a place where you can melt away.''

Friends and relatives say Reyes, the grocer from Nezahualcoyotl, was a member of an impoverished Oaxaca family. Too poor to complete his studies, he was self-educated and migrated to Mexico City in search of work.

"He travelled often to Oaxaca to visit his mother," said Adrian Ramirez, president of the Mexican League for the Defence of Human Rights. "No one suspected that he could be linked to an insurgent group.''

Intelligence reports say members of five extended families make up much of the rank and file of the EPR faction responsible for the Pemex bombings.

Many of the leaders are men in their 50s with experience in failed guerrilla groups of the 1970s.

Mexico Statistics Says it is war

September 24, 2007: Mexico really is a country in the middle of a war. That's the real story behind recent statistical studies analyzing violence in Mexico which reported that "homicides, kidnapping, and arms trafficking" has increased this year within the country by 25 percent. Overall, "gangland" type executions have increased dramatically since 2001. It's not that these executions didn't take place in 2001 – around 110 were reported. However, for the January to June 2007 period, 1,588 took place.

September 23, 2007: It's ironic but understandable, but government reform in Mexico has weakened the country's domestic intelligence capacities. Reform began in the 1980s when the old Federal Security Directorate (FSD) was broken down and decentralized. The move was welcomed by many Mexicans because FSD had served as a personal police force for senior politicians. Mexico's Center for Research on National Security (CISEN), the current intelligence organization, has had its budget reduced since 2000 – a move designed to weaken the old PRI's hold on the intelligence service. Now Mexican officials complain that Mexican intelligence is too weak. It needs to be beefed up to fight the drug cartels and the emerging threat from the EPR and revived "old left" terror groups.

September 15, 2007: Mexican media claimed that a shadowy organization called "Mexican Movement Bolivariano" (MMB) helps finance, train and arm the Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR). The MMB is allegedly tied to Venezuela. Follow the dots and that leads to Hugo Chavez. Allegations like this are common in the media; a conspiracy involving big personalities (celebrities, leaders) thrills almost everyone and Mexico is especially fertile ground for political conspiracy theories. Current President Felipe Calderon made political hay out of contacts between PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador and Chavez. Mexico is in the middle of a huge counter-insurgency operation -- attacking drug gangs and corruption simultaneously. The Mexican government has had some success in its battle. Sidetracking Calderon's Mexican government would be an attractive operation to a leftist caudillo like Chavez. In a recent statement following the September 10 bombing attack, the EPR called the Calderon government "illegitimate" and "fascist." The illegitimate accusation certainly echoes the claims of Lopez-Obrador and his supporters, but these are common propaganda themes from the left and can be read as a pitch for internal support in Mexico. The EPR's targeting has improved dramatically, but an alternative explanation for this improvement (and one far more likely) is that drug cartels are giving the EPR money and intelligence. The cartelistas certainly have contacts in PEMEX and could acquire very detailed information on Mexican pipelines. For a character like Chavez, riling Mexico is probably a bad move in the long term. Mexican intelligence can return the favor—they play dirty. Chavez isn't stupid, but he is bombastic and at times believes his own bombast. Chavez just might take the risk. That's why this is an interesting rumor, though currently it's a rumor without real facts.