https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/04/18/mexi-a18.html
Eighteen teachers jailed as police crack down on protests in Mexico
By Neil Hardt
18 April 2016
Eighteen teachers were arrested in Chiapas on Friday as demonstrations spread across southwestern Mexico against the implementation of a right-wing federal education reform law. On Saturday, the ten men and eight women were transferred by airplane to a prison in Tepic, Nayarit where they are being held on federal charges.
The arrests were part of an overwhelming show of force by police against the thousands of teachers who marched in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán, and Veracruz. Teachers set up road blocks in several cities and set fire to the city hall of San Cristobol de las Casas, Chiapas.
Hauled and flown off to a jail hundreds of miles from home work and families in Tepic,Nayarit ?
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The security business in Mexico and Panamanian refuge
MEXICO CITY (Process) .- The millionaire business accounting for state and federal governments selling spy equipment and surveillance allows providers build offshore structures to deposit their money in bank secrecy havens.
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Security Balam owners and family of the founder of the Panamanian office obses used Mossack Fonseca to incorporate paper companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands and trusts in New Zealand. During the last two presidential terms, both companies sold high-tech material to the Army and Mexican security authorities.
It follows from the 11.5 million internal documents of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca who obtained the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ, for its acronym in English) and shared with more than 100 media worldwide including Process.........
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Other beneficiaries of offshore structures were Asaf Israel Zanzuri and Rodrigo Trevino Ruiz Teresa. In addition to posing for magazines heart, young -35 and 33, respectively, they are partners Balam Private Security Company, SA de CV, which applies governmental and military units with safety equipment.
Zanzuri dated back to Israel and hired Trevino Ruiz Doporto & Associates office in February 2015 to create two trusts in New Zealand called Sapphire and Diamond Trust Trust. That same month, through Balam, Zanzuri served as intermediary in the sale of a drone Dominator XP -Made by the Israeli military company Aeronautics- the Mexican government.
In March 2014, employees Balam approached the company Hacking Team, which develops the spying program Remote Control Systems and presumed to be "one of the most important companies in (terms of) intelligence in the country and number one PGR and Marina (as customers). "
According to an email dated 28 November 2014 which won the WikiLeaks organization, along with a lot of internal files Hacking Team (Proceso 2019) - among customers Balam include the Navy, the PGR the Cisen, the Federal Police and "many prosecutors" including the State of Mexico, as well as the governments of Chiapas, Baja California, Puebla and Michoacan.
In that email, the employee Balam said: "We have sold everything from systems to intercept drones and control centers and control". He added: "We just sold to the PGR (the contract is already signed and already transferred the money) the NSO system," another spy program developed by Pegasus, an Israeli company.
In another email, dated the next day, a broker Balam said the "key man" in negotiations for the sale of spyware was Thomas Zerón Lucio, the current director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of the PGR, questioned by his role in the investigation of the case Ayotzinapa.
According to its website, Balam sells spyware as Viskey, facial recognition systems, cameras and radars perimeter detection and blocking of cellular signals and radio, as well as five models of drones.The company does not appear on the Transparency Obligations Portal or federal contracts reported to Compranet system over the past two years.
In the documentation sent the office Doporto Mossack Fonseca & Associates to perform the process of "due diligence", with which the history of the beneficiaries of the offshore- structures are verified, the Panamanian firm realized that the proof of address of Zanzuri he was in the name of Alfredo Rimoch Lewinberg, the director of the Liomont laboratories and chairman of the National Association of Drug Manufacturers (ANAFAM) (Proceso 2058).
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/04/18/mexi-a18.html
Eighteen teachers jailed as police crack down on protests in Mexico
By Neil Hardt
18 April 2016
Eighteen teachers were arrested in Chiapas on Friday as demonstrations spread across southwestern Mexico against the implementation of a right-wing federal education reform law. On Saturday, the ten men and eight women were transferred by airplane to a prison in Tepic, Nayarit where they are being held on federal charges.
The arrests were part of an overwhelming show of force by police against the thousands of teachers who marched in the states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacán, and Veracruz. Teachers set up road blocks in several cities and set fire to the city hall of San Cristobol de las Casas, Chiapas.
The protests are aimed at preventing the implementation of a right-wing education reform program passed by the federal government in 2013. Implementation of the law has been incomplete due to the widespread opposition to the reforms amongst teachers. The reform program revokes the teachers’ right to control hiring and firing and gives this power to the government. The reform plan also establishes a mechanism of testing teachers to facilitate mass firings, creates a system of government supervisors to monitor and report on teachers and decentralizes funding.
The reform law package was introduced by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2012 and was immediately met with opposition of teachers. In May and June of 2015, the federal government was unable to impose exams on teachers due to protests and has been attempting to impose the programs ever since.
The outbreak of demonstrations was provoked when the Oaxacan state legislature met last Saturday in a secretive midnight session to ram through a new series of reforms aimed at bringing the state’s education laws into harmony with the new federal reforms.
Thousands of armed police mobilized against the teachers on Friday and fought street battles against teachers armed only with rocks and eggs. In San Cristobal de las Casas alone, 1,000 federal police, 400 state police and 100 special agents hurt dozens of teachers in the crackdown.
The Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) responded to the demonstrations by claiming that most classes were not cancelled and that most teachers remained on the job.
However, the Mexican ruling class is well aware of growing popular discontent over widespread inequality, corruption and state violence, and fears the possibility that opposition to the education reforms may spark broader social discontent. An April 13 opinion piece in the daily Excelsior noted with concern that “legal and political failures could incite extremists—or those that don’t have anything to lose—to create a radicalization like what is taking place in Guerrero.”
The outbreak of protests by teachers comes at a dangerous time for the Peña Nieto administration, which according to a recent poll is the least popular administration in 20 years, garnering the support of just 30 percent of Mexicans.
The teacher demonstrations follow protests last week by student-teachers (known as normalistas) in the state of Michoacan. On April 12, street battles broke out between youth and riot police after police attacked a blockade thenormalistas set up on a highway. Four police and many students were hurt in the confrontation.
Sections of the Mexican ruling class are maneuvering to bring the longstanding opposition of teachers back into the acceptable framework of bourgeois politics. On March 21, the leadership of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) finalized a deal with National Regeneration Movement (Morena) leader and ex-Mayor of Mexico City Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Obrador has long served as a lightening rod for social opposition in Mexico, and his political maneuvers serve as a key method by which the ruling class seeks to diffuse social tensions and forestall social revolution. The CNTE-Morena alliance is intended to give Obrador an increased space to maneuver and channel opposition to education reform into Morena’s 2016 election campaign in the state of Oaxaca.
In announcing the deal, Obrador issued hollow and demagogic statements against Peña Nieto’s education reform and proclaimed that the CNTE-Morena alliance “angers the mafia of power.” Obrador proposes the election of a “democratic government” led by his party. Such a government, Obrador said, would apply a reform plan put together by the Oaxacan state government and the CNTE, known as the Plan for the Transformation of Education in Oaxaca (PTEO).
In 2010, the CNTE endorsed Citizens’ Movement candidate Gabino Cue, who won the Oaxacan gubernatorial election in 2010 and has since played a key role in helping the federal government ram through its education reform plan in Oaxaca. The CNTE has called Cue a “traitor” in an attempt to cover up its own bankrupt deals with the Mexican ruling class aimed at protecting their dues base and ensuring that their membership’s militancy is kept within acceptable limits.
Mexican teachers, especially in the poorer southwest region, have a long history of militancy. During a 2006 teachers strike, police opened fire on strikers taking part in nonviolent demonstrations, provoking mass social opposition. The Mexican government organized death squads and called in the army to crush the strike, leaving 27 teachers and protesters dead.
The Mexican ruling class, with the support of its US imperialist masters, is preparing similar massacres today. The government’s attempts to amend Article 11 of the Constitution to grant the president the power to impose marital law to crush strikes and protests, and its passage of the Atenco Law in the State of Mexico, show how the ruling class responds to social protest.
Mexican teachers cannot rely on sections of a capitalist class that respond to their protests with bullets and bombs to change the education through reform plans like the PTEO. For all his populist phraseology, Obrador only serves to sow illusions in the bourgeois political system by juxtaposing his call for “democratic” bourgeois government to the government of the current “mafia of power.” These meaningless terms cover over the basic class character of the Mexican state and serve to disarm workers, paving the way for future state massacres.
Mexican teachers and normalistas do not lack militancy or courage, but in the absence of an independent, socialist political party of the working class, they are left defenseless to betrayals by the CNTE and attacks by the military and police.
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