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We’ve been covering the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico since the summer, specifically the role of the Indigenous teacher’s movement and the violence. While the teachers on strike have agreed to return to work tommorow, police have begun to surround the city in a show of State sponsored force. According to Yahoo! News:

Officials said police had begun to enter the city and remove some barricades, and reporters saw about a half-dozen federal police trucks equipped with water cannon and bulldozer blades moving onto a highway about 100 yards from signs that said “Welcome to Oaxaca.”

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