Rich And Tom Update: Machetes And Stalin
I've heard from The Boys. They're currently in Mexico, hanging about on the beach:
We saw the demos in mexico city, people with machetes and flags with stalin, marx, and lenin. All pretty intense. We are in puerto escondido at the mo just chilling, the bus we arrived in was plastered with graffiti from oaxaca, US journo was shot last week, all pretty screwed up. We are probably gonna head for san cristobal de las casas in a few days, skip the town of oaxaca.
If you haven't been following things with our neighbors to the South, their southern state is currently boiling over. When I was there in late '94, Oaxaca was a cool town, only mildly tainted by rumors of "Sub-Commander" Marcos and his band of Zapatistas. From what I've read, this flare-up has pretty much trashed the city, making life very difficult for folks who live there and reducing income from tourism.
What started out as a response to the government's totalitarian suppression of a teacher's strike has attracted the usual band of totalitarian-loving opportunists. And as always, the People's Revolution types are more than willing to accept sacrifices on behalf of the greater good, especially if it's The People who are making them.
