Kill the Teachers

*Human rights repression in Oaxaca, Mexico reached a bloody climax in 2006.

*An attack by heavily armed Mexican federal police on unarmed civilians supporting striking teachers culminated nearly eighty years of repressive political rule that impoverished the state of Oaxaca and made virtual kings of its governors.

*Politics and crime went hand in hand in this agonizing period of contemporary Mexican history, much of it told in the exact words of the participants. It began with the decision b...