[narconews] President Calderón’s Counterinsurgency in Mexico: A Story That Must Be Told
 
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:34:15 -0500 (CDT)

Popular Movements Are Regrouping and Planning for the Future, and
Narco News Your Help to Keep You Informed

Dear Colleagues:

The story of this week's flooding of more than 70 percent of the
Mexican state of Tabasco is a a horrifying tale of the current state
of affairs in Mexico. In Tabasco, flood victims have been waiting
desperately for help, but President Caldersn's violent escalation of
the "drug war" across Mexico - given a boost by Bush's recent
announcement of a $1.4 billion drug war assistance program now known
universally as "Plan Mexico" - has kept army troops from providing
the relief they once did in such situations.

If you missed our exclusive report this morning on Plan Mexico's
first victims, read it here:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue47/article2868.html

I hope the urgency of telling such stories is in and of itself cause
for you to help us continue our work.

This is one of the stories that needs to be told. It is the sad
follow-up to the chronicle of hope and resistance that Narco News
brought you last year during our coverage of the Zapatista Other
Campaign, the rise of the APPO, and questionable election that
resulted in Calderon's ascendancy to the Presidency. Fifteen short
months ago, when popular movements seemed unstoppable in Mexico, we
brought you the story in vivid detail. The story of the
counterinsurgency is a more painful story to tell, but still, we must
do it.

For even as we bring you these stories, new hope is growing beneath
the surface. In Tlaxcala, in Morelos, in Guerrero, popular movements
are regrouping and planning for the future.

Will they be victorious, or will they be crushed under the heel of a
supposed "war on drugs?"

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-Greg Berger
Gringoyo Productions