Topic summary
2006 Oaxaca rebellion
- Flavio Sosa
- Enrique Rueda Pacheco (teachers' union)
- Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (governor)
- Vicente Fox (president)
- Ardelio Vargas (PFP chief)
- Biblioteca Vasconcelos
- Chiapas Bridge
- CONEVAL
- IFAI
- INDESOL
- Mesoamerica Project
- Superior Auditor of the Federation
- Tren Suburbano
- UIF
- Amigos de Fox
- "Foxilandia"
- 2001 expenses controversy
- 2005 Mexico–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
- 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster
- 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco
- 2006 Oaxaca rebellion
- Marta Sahagún (wife)
- Fernando Bribiesca Sahagún (stepson)
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). The conflict emerged in May 2006 with the police responding to a strike involving the local teachers' trade union by opening fire on non-violent protests. It then grew into a broad-based movement pitting the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) against the state's governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Protesters demanded the removal or resignation of Ortiz, whom they accused of political corruption and acts of repression. Multiple reports, including from international human rights monitors, accused the Mexican government of using death squads, summary executions, and even violating Geneva Conventions standards that prohibit attacking and shooting at unarmed medics attending to the wounded. One human rights observer claimed over twenty-seven were killed by the police violence. The dead included Brad Will, Emilio Alonso Fabián, José Alberto López Bernal, Fidel Sánchez García, and Esteban Zurita López.
Despite the intensity of the protests, Governor Ulises Ruiz refused to step down. The Federal Government, headed by then-president Vicente Fox, deployed officers from the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) in October 2006 to retake the city of Oaxaca.