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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 19
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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MEXICAN SENATOR DENOUNCES ATTEMPT TO IMPRISON HIM AS GUERRILLA
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(*La Jornada*, 9/17/96)
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[Translation by Conspiracy Nation]
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"If I were not a senator of this Republic, right now I would be
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incarcerated as a guerrilla of the Army of the Popular Revolution
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[EPR, Ejercito Popular Revolucionario]," said the federal
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legislator from Guerrero, Felix Salgado Macedonio, as he related
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the way in which presumed federal agents tried to detain him and
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how they assaulted him and planted an AK-47 rifle near him in
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order to link him -- without knowing who he was -- to the EPR.
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Salgado Macedonio tried to file a penal denunciation with an
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agency of the Federal Public Ministry, located in Iguala, but the
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official in charge, Gabriel Godinez Ponce, put it off for another
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day because it was an "unsuitable day."
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According to the senator, events occurred in the following way:
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he was travelling from Ometepec toward Iguala, where he was to
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officiate at ceremonies marking the holiday of the Shout of
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Independence.
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On passing through Chilpancingo, Salgado Macedonio made a
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stopover in order to meet with Rene Lobato, a member of the state
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directorate of the PRD [opposition party]. There he bought, in a
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shop, a jeep for 9 thousand pesos.
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In order to continue his trip to Iguala, he himself drove the
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jeep, and his chauffeur, Tomas Lopez Garcia, drove the senator's
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motor-van in which both of them had been travelling since
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Ometepec.
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Twelve kilometers from Iguala, one of the jeep's tires blew.
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Because there was no spare, the senator's assistant travelled in
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the motor-van to Zacacoyuca, the nearest village, to search for a
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mechanic. The legislator decided to wait at the side of the
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road, near a tree. He brought with him his cellular phone, a
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bottle of water, and a copy of the *La Jornada* newspaper.
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Minutes later, a Nissan van, color white, with tinted windows and
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no license plates and bearing a little national flag attached to
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the antenna, drove up and parked behind the jeep. Five persons
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got out and others remained in the vehicle.
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One of the five approached the senator while the other four
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dispersed. "What's going on?" shouted the one walking toward
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Salgado Macedonio. "Nothing, I blew a tire," answered the
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senator who by now had noticed on the belt of the presumed
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judicial agent a gold badge bearing insignia of the General
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Prosecutor of the Republic [PGR, Procuraduria General de la
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Republica].
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By now right in front of him, the agent took out his pistol and
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shouted: "So, reading subversive propaganda... Stand up, you
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son of a bitch, you are from the Army of the Popular Revolution!"
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At that moment, the agent grabbed him violently by the shirt
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collar and made him get up, while by now the other four had
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circled around him from behind and were pointing their weapons at
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him.
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Salgado tried to explain it was a mistake and wanted to identify
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himself, but then the leader of the group turned to him and
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shouted, pointing at the cellular telephone: "Ah hah, you son of
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a bitch, you are communicating with the EPR... and look what you
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have there!" The senator turned towards the tree and discovered
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that one of the other agents surrounding him had secretly placed
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an AK-47 rifle next to the tree. At that moment he was punched
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in the stomach.
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When he recovered, he managed to take his identification out of
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his pocket. The leader of the group immediately changed his
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attitude and offered "his apologies for this error," and informed
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the senator they were part of a special group belonging to the
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Federal Judicial Police.
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Angered, Salgado Macedonio returned their insults and demanded
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that they give him their names. However the judicial agents
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immediately left, taking with them the AK-47. "They were tall
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and fat, and spoke as if they were from the north," said the
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legislator.
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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