So what happened in Atenco? (Part 2)

Why is Atenco not forgotten? The people's story vs. Peña Nieto

La Jornada: Adolfo Gilly

Enrique Peña Nieto arrived well prepared, not anticipating any problems, at a meeting with students at the Ibero [Iberamerican University] on Friday, May 11. Students, women and men, posed questions--among others, what had happened in Atenco six years earlier.

The candidate gave an administrative response, which satisfied no one. Perhaps he might have been home free if, before leaving, it had not occurred to him to take the microphone again and, in the manner of the Holy Pope, to declare loudly:

"I assume full responsibility for what happened in Atenco. Those responsible were brought before the judiciary, but, I repeat: it was an action based on the legitimate right of the Mexican State to use the police to restore order and peace".

It was a bad hour, Black Friday. All hell broke loose. Students shouted repeatedly, "Atenco is not forgotten! Atenco is not forgotten!" 

The candidate lost his composure. Pursued by the voices of young people, he took refuge in the bathrooms, which for sheer bad luck, happened to be the women's bathrooms. The cameras recorded his bewildered expression and similar expressions on the faces of those who accompanied him. He finally managed to get down the stairs amid shouts of: "Out! Out! Get out!"

Thus was born the unexpected, brash, hard-to-get-a-handle-on student movement that has now spread to [students in nearly a hundred public and private universities]. First, it was the 131 [students] from the Ibero that gave a face [to the movement] by displaying their student IDs on YouTube. With this act they challenged those who had in mind, perhaps as [happened at] Atenco, to find the guilty [ones] in order to apply to them "the legitimate use of public force". After that, attracted by this gesture of defiance, a torrent of [other students] came together to declare--each one and all together--"#YoSoy132".

So what happened in Atenco? (Part 1)

The word Atenco is a recurring theme in the current electoral conflict taking place in México. San Salvador Atenco is the name of a small town in the Mexican State of Mexico. It is also the location where large-scale violence against protesters took place in 2006. During that time, Enrique Peña Nieto, current candidate for the Mexican presidency was the governor of the State of México and as such is responsible for the events that unfolded.

We are re-publishing a chronicle of the events as narrated by Julie Webb-Pullman:

Wanker set free

Wanker that pointed his gun to anti-Peña protesters is set free after paying $1,700 Mxn bail (roughly £86)

 

 Xalapa Veracruz (apro).- The State Police in Conurbación Xalapa, which belongs to the Secretary of Public Safety, released Juan Pablo Franzoni Martínez after paying a $1,700Mxn bail. The young member of the PRI party had cocked his gun and pointed it at peaceful anti-Peña Nieto protesters last Saturday while he was under the influence of alcohol.

Notiver newspaper informed in their Monday edition that security guards from the San José quarters reported of the release of mr. Franzoni on Sunday morning. Mr. Franzoni barely spent the night under custody and was not formally accused.

Last Saturday, Franzoni cocked and aimed his gun to the crowds manifesting as he shouted abusive slurs and threw a chair at them from the balcony of a restaurant. Franzoni was in the company of a female who laughed constantly as the marchers ran to escape the threat of Franzoni's gun.

The government of Veracruz, informed that the subject had been detained under charges of illegal possession of a fire arm.

Source: Revista Proceso

Wanker points gun to peaceful protesters (Follow up)

Wanker points gun to peaceful protesters #I am 132... (Follow up)

As we pointed out earlier today, we have further information on this incident.

 Xalapa Veracruz. A male under the influence of alcohol threatened with a fire arm a group of protesters that marched on the streets of Veracruz capital against the results of the presidential elections. This was informed by the local Secretary of public security (SSP).

According to police reports, the attacker answers to the name of  Juan Pablo Franzoni Martínez, who was at the balcony of the Sumarento restaurant's first floor, close to the police quarters in San José.

Around 18:00 hrs. the protest was heading towards the city centre, when from the balcony of the aforementioned restaurant, Franzoni Martínez threw a chair from the balcony against the group of people marching on the streets.

Moments later, after realizing that his first action did not harmed any of the march members, he drew a .22 caliber gun and after cocking his arm he aimed against the marchers. This caused the crew to run in panic. 

Wanker points gun to peaceful protesters #I am 132

Follow up:

We reported earlier today about:  this-is-what-we-are-against.

A member of the PRI party ponted a gun at peaceful protesters of the #I am 132 movement.
This fine gentleman threw a chair from a balcony and afterwards pointed a loaded weapon to the marchers. Let's see:

"Get them honey!" Stupid girlfriend celebrates bf's reckless endangerment of public security.

This is what we are against.

This is PRI!

Mr. Juan Pablo Fraonzi, affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) threw a chair from a balcony towards a protest by members of the  #I am 132 movement. Non content with this, he drew a hand gun to threaten the people who were manifesting peacefully. Mr. Fraonzi collaborated with the gobernment of the former PRI governor Fidel Herrera in the state of Veracruz