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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 13
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 13
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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"NOTHING IS HAPPENING"
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Apparently, to watch the "news," "nothing" much is happening.
Clinton is (yawn) doing a tough guy routine with Iraq. Bob Dole,
the straw man from Kansas, is pretending to be running for
President. Congress is "considering." About whatever is
*really* occurring: "mum's the word."
So we turn to our new NAFTA neighbor, Mexico, where at least the
whole country is not all "looking the other way" and pretending
there is no news.
A new Special Prosecutor has been appointed to investigate the
1994 assassination of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo
Colosio. The new Special Prosecutor, Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez,
replaces Pablo Chapa Bezanilla. It is being demanded that
Gonzalez Perez subpoena Mexico's ex-president Carlos Salinas de
Gotari.
Past Special Prosecutor Bezanilla has refused to respond to more
than 60 written questions on the Colosio case delivered to him by
law school students at Mexico City's UNAM university.
According to *La Jornada*, "The dimunitive figure of the former
Special Prosecutor in the Colosio case could be seen scurrying at
top speed through the halls of the UNAM Law School. Behind him,
about 20 reporters were earnestly trying to make him respond to
diverse questions regarding the investigation. As his only
response, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla gave a little smile."
Bezanilla's "little smile" came immediately following his
participation in a meeting during which he had stressed the
necessity of the current investigation's recovering its public
credibility. But Bezanilla lamented to reporters that "he
prefers to reflect on their questions," then exited at full speed
from the building.
The Mexican mass media, unlike our own here in the united states,
has been aggressive in its demand for the truth. Says Alfonso
Molina Ruibal, president of the government commission charged
with investigating the Colosio assassination, "If there had not
existed such a firm position by the media... it is possible that
the temptation to cover up would have prevailed."
According to Mexican journalists, the Carlos Salinas connection
has not been sufficiently looked into and it could shed light on
just who might be the "intellectual author" of the Colosio
assassination.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in sunny Mexico, two policemen connected
with something called "Transformacion 2000" shot at hundreds of
pedestrians in Mexico City's Historic District who were trying to
lynch them. This occurred after the two policemen tried to
rescue the actor Carlos Bracho who had run over a 4-year-old
child with his Jeep Cherokee automobile.
According to witnesses, the actor had tried to escape but dozens
of pedestrians stopped him.
At this point the two policemen, Victor Manuel Mindez Fuentes and
Israel Zarazza Robles, arrived. They tried to take away the
actor, but were confronted with protests and outrage by the
pedestrians. With shouts, and with some of them armed with
sticks and bottles, they surrounded the trio and prevented their
leaving.
The policemen, to clear the way, tried driving through the crowd
and injured several of them, one of whom had to be hospitalized.
With this, the anger of the crowd increased and they began to
destroy the policemen's automobile. In the meantime, the police
and the actor attempted to escape the ugly scene on foot, but
were cut off and captured at the corner of Costa Rica and El
Carmen streets.
Here, the policemen shot at their pursuers, wounding Felipe
Acosta Suarez in the leg. But the shots did not deter the angry
crowd which, more furious than ever, chased the uniformed
officers to the Worker's University, where they took refuge.
At this point, hundreds tried to break down the door in order to
drag out the policemen and set fire to them "in the middle of the
street, like dogs," shouted some. Others proposed to hang them
from a post and the majority favored just to throw them in the
sewer. The two officers stayed hidden in a room on the second
floor, where they tried to find different clothes to put on.
Around 8 pm they were rescued by officials who, amid struggles,
managed to move them to the primary agency of the Public
Ministry. Even still, some of the inflamed crowd followed after
them. Others went to the hospital to try and prevent the escape
of actor Carlos Bracho and to "throw him in the sewer when we see
him."
*La Jornada* gives a different perspective on the Iraq situation;
it allows us to hear more of the Iraqi position regarding current
tensions. Iraq rejects the legality of the "zones of exclusion,"
i.e., the "no-fly zones," imposed on them. The legality of these
"zones of exclusion" has not been recognized by the United
Nations Security Council.
This past May, an agreement had been reached to allow Iraq to
export oil in return for food. Now, with this agreement
apparently on hold due to renewed hostilities, the price of
"October crude" oil has gone up 63 cents. So it looks like
"somebody" is making a profit.
Elsewhere in Mexico, directors of banks and businesses are
urgently making known to Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo their
great worries over the violence generated by the Popular Army of
the Revolution (EPR, Ejercito Popular Revolucionario) and to
demand greater efficiency in the government's actions meant to
counteract the growing popular unrest, a phenomena having
negative impact on economic activity. They are demanding prompt
solutions.
Respecting the offer made by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James
Jones to help combat the EPR, the general feeling is that, while
grateful for the offer, Mexico must solve the problem itself.
While admitting that massive unemployment is fueling unrest, the
businessmen and bankers refute those who sustain that Zedillo's
neo-liberal economic policies are the cause of current troubles.
Meanwhile, orders of arrest have been issued against leaders of
PROCUP and the FAC-MLN (see CN 9.05). They are to be
interrogated regarding any knowledge they may have about the EPR.
Regarding the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN,
Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional), the government says
it remains favorable to continued talks with the rebel army. Yet
Commandante Ramon of the EZLN warns, "Every day there is the
danger of a confrontation because the federal Army continues to
search for us in the mountains... From what we can see, at least
from this side, is that an attack is coming -- even though the
government says not. When the government says it's not going to
attack, it is because it is going to attack. If not, then why so
much troop movement in the mountains?"
Finally, the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon is gearing up for a
plebiscite on the separation of that state from the federal
union. The apparent motivation is the unequal distribution of
fiscal resources between Nuevo Leon and the federation. The wish
is to halt tax payments and divert those funds toward the state
economy.
In the beginning of July, Mexican president Zedillo met in
Monterrey with leading businessmen of Nuevo Leon. The dialogue
was sharp, with complaints of not receiving support from the
federal government rising in tone. In exasperation, Zedillo
responded: "If it weren't for federal support, you wouldn't be
here."
It is argued that those who seek to divert more funds to Nuevo
Leon do so not for the state's development so much as to enlarge
their own enterprises and personal fortunes. The problem in
Mexico is the distribution of wealth, says *La Jornada*.
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