Goodbye APPO? 
Eric Castillo
Joch was January 2005 and the three Indians, Abraham Ramirez (still in prison), Juventino and Noel Garcia (released), Santiago Xanica originating in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, was detained in a major operation of the State Police, blaming them for murder, while various social and human rights defenders have maintained the struggle for their freedom to consider prisoners of conscience. This will mark the beginning of a regime that since 2004, months before taking office, assuming an absurd, clumsy and cynical attitude towards organizations and dissident leaders. 6 years ago
Ulises Ruiz takes the reins of the state administration, and their public posturing is emerging a population full of fullness and a series of political, social and union pressure to raise Section 22 of the SNTE to be assumed in strong action against the Ulysses threatening and that also is the backbone of a series of demonstrations that could curb unit imminent enforcement policy that is established in the beginning of that 2005.
Many experts and scholars have spoken in terms of chronological and analytical about what happened in 2006 in Oaxaca. We have known testimony but we have also known many stories we can formulate better questions to what happened for 6 months in the Capital City and in different regions. However there are still organizations like the Popular Revolutionary Front (FPR) and people like James Chepi Azael (Secretary General of Section 22) that repeat the same speech as always, vilifying the image of a tyrant who has proven to be smarter than them. Ulises
leaves the government of Oaxaca, coverage by the political forces over tricolor empowered in the country, led to cynicism where no politician or the PRI, PAN and PRD have been able yet be grateful for a Appo-letterhead was his long shadow, but also was the small group of leaders that can be negotiated or the small group of activists who can harass them and nothing happens, a handful of "momentary reaction to the repression."
is known that the APPO was a broad front of people and organizations, created with ingenuity and a large assembly of leaders, and political community, supported by a political situation that put the government on the ropes, saw a historic opportunity to generate environment of social tension to channel social demands and restore a new governance, however, that was in theory a good speech of the leaders and the bodies of the "civil society", also attached to "frentote." Come after the realization of modernism, typical of the old Mexican left, which would reduce the APPO to an address "provisional" specialist in activism, in a closed circle of leaders seeking concrete targets and individuals.
APPO also remains the symbol of ancestral identity-community of many people unhappy who thinks that something must happen to make a difference. Know that there were a handful of activists and small groups oenenges fight ridiculously egocentric to each other and that no one believes them, things can happen without clearly in sight, but will have to happen.
After the defeat, after 2007 they organized "assemblies" and even "state legislatures" to legitimize the leadership of these apposed. For that served the leaders of the 22 puppets, to endorse these meetings of activists who claim to represent the dissatisfaction of the people of Oaxaca, and the newly Democratic State Convention RPF-Section 22, just in November this year. And this group is the group Stalinist better appo organized, who know how to fight for his goals and he gets up to organizations like the Committee to Defend the Rights of the People (CODEP) and other activists seeking to build on the 22 and letterhead-APPO to be propaganda, but they get very little. For this convention the Stalinist stole his name to an initiative in September 2009 the Defence Committee civic organization (CODECI) released to participate in the recent elections for governor, a fact which strengthened the latter, after the defeat of PRI and became more daring, to party elites, the leader codec Catarino Torres Pereda, recently assassinated.
The oenegés, Flavio Sosa, the RPF and other emblems of opportunism and agandalle decided to participate in elections within their own logic. On the other hand, the radicals (also apposed) decided not to participate, using vulgar argument that all parties are equal, which we all know. However, there were people and organizations who have never boasted of being apposed or leaders of that and decided to participate in elections showing commitment and social responsibility. While the social movements and activists have been unable to do anything that gives them enough credibility to say the APPO members, at least they should have done is to participate seriously in the electoral process, not to support the Diodoros Gabino Cue as opportunistic , but to achieve prevent the PRI wins. Ulysses's defeat gave the vote and was useful for those who felt a responsibility and above all the need for it. APPO-front
served all kinds of opportunism in 2006, including the teachers' union opportunism in Section 22. The APPO-letterhead was used to feed the ego of the leaders or activists who traveled to Europe to stand as emblems and which are present in the media as a way to survive politically or from a course magonistas exile say, as the case of Professor Raul Gatica ah always lived Zapatista discourse without doing anything serious. Ulysses
It will be called APPO his political shadow. The opportunism of the leaders affection, nor never affected her self-centeredness of radicals do not cause any danger. The political landscape becomes more complex with the entrance of the new government, many people are aware that even more difficult times ahead for Oaxaca, the symbol of change Gabino Cue is just that and if there is hope there is also a general weariness. Not leave the underlying problems, rather the social movement has to carry the activists and leaders in question, but beyond that is the challenge of leaving or lawsuits shameful propaganda and really starting to work from the regions or communities . The apposed face the challenge of self-limit his ego, it will be very difficult and like to think that teachers are leaving the political simulation. The social movement needs to stop being ridiculous, you need to find a way to resume serious and sensible enforcement issues: the dead of 2006, San Juan Copala, Betty Darling, Jyri Jaakkola, Catarino Torres, missing political prisoners Loxichas, Abraham Ramirez, etc.
Many are tired of speeches, propaganda monotonous, the marches, the plants and the mediocrity of social activists from Oaxaca, but this time when the pattern changes, one must admit that all who seek a Change must begin to transform their ways of working. It is urgent to set foot on earth and give time to reflect and now there will be no tyrant who is to blame for everything, the only thing there is the collective work and the alternative destroy our outdated ways of relating among ordinary people. Maybe this could be the APPO side of the letterhead, the opportunism and selfishness, perhaps.
A bright memory of indigenous fighters, Catarino Torres Pereda.
