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.”

The past few days in Oaxaca have been especially violent, seeing the deaths of at least three. One was 34 year old independent New York based journalist Bradley Roland Will, who was killed during a shootout between protesters and men they claim were local officials in Santa Lucia del Camino, on Oaxaca’s outskirts. The other fatalities were two Oaxacan locals, Esteban Zurrita, shot dead Friday and the bullet-ridden body of another man, Emilio Alonso Fabian, was discovered about two miles away. So far most place the blame for the killings on local officials. With an even larger build up of state forces one can only imagine that the violence will continue to escalate.

Via / Yahoo! News