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A VIOLENT COMMUNIST REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN

In Mexico, teachers' protest explodes into political turmoil

10:39 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 23, 2006

New York Times News Service

OAXACA, Mexico – For three months, civil unrest has gripped this lovely colonial city, leaving two people dead, crippling the tourist industry and shuttering schools.

The original cause of the strife, a teachers' strike for better pay, has become lost in the escalating violence and the revolutionary bombast of the protesters, who now demand that Gov. Ulises Ruiz step down.

The teachers' union has been joined by scores of social organizations, some of them with extreme philosophies. They have shut down highways, taken over five radio stations, burned more than a dozen buses, blocked off the city's historic square, seized government offices, destroyed the stage for an annual cultural fair and blockaded tourists in their hotels.