Protesters take over Oaxaca, Mexico
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Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans. Police are nowhere in sight.
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More than 100,000 defiant supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador massed Saturday in a bid to overturn his narrow election defeat with protests that threatened to widen Mexico&#039;s regional and class divisions.
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Recent protests in Burma by democracy activists, defiant monks and other citizens objecting to an unprecedented spike in fuel prices have sparked a brutal crackdown by the country's ruling military junta and cast a new spotlight on the gravity of conditions in the resource-rich country.
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Assailants shot dead an Indian activist in Mexico's conflict-ridden state of Oaxaca, police said Saturday. It was not clear if the killing was related to months of political violence in which at least nine other people have died.
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Leftist protesters targeted Mexican   President Vicente Fox at a major military parade on Saturday,   then rallied to plot their next move in a long battle to   overturn a July election they say was rigged.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest led by leftists who claim he stole July's election and have vowed to block him from taking the oath of office.
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Thousands of workers take control of one of Egypt's biggest textile factories in a protest over pay.
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OAXACA, Mexico -- A heavy police presence in Mexico's troubled tourist city of Oaxaca has knocked the wind out of protests to oust a state governor, giving President Felipe Calder&#xF3;n room to breathe in his first days in office.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - A heavy police presence in Mexico's troubled tourist city of Oaxaca has knocked the wind out of protests to oust a state governor, giving President Felipe Calderon room to breathe in his first days in office.
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Mexico City's leftist mayor led more than 150,000 demonstrators in a march Sunday to protest efforts to impeach him, an issue his supporters say threatens Mexico's political stability and pits "those on the bottom" against "those on top."
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An angry peasant pushes his clenched fists through the gates during a protest outside the gates of Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac, 17 November 2004, where police broke up a protest by striking workers and sympathisers a day earlier, leaving as many as seven
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In the first major public demonstration since the start of the Olympics, thousands of protesters clashed with police who stopped them from marching
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The majestic pyramids and temples of the ancient Zapotec kingdom of Monte Alban sit spectacularly atop a hill in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca.
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Thousands of educators and leftist activists marched through Mexico's southern city of Oaxaca on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of a clash between police and striking teachers that set off months of political unrest.
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OAXACA, Mexico  - Federal riot police ended their weeks-long occupation of the center of the Mexican tourist city Oaxaca on Saturday, having weakened a protest movement trying to oust a state governor.
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OAXACA CITY, Mexico  - Riot police firing tear gas clashed with protesters launching fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails on Saturday in the strife-torn city of Oaxaca.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico's capital on Wednesday night to protest a surge in tortilla prices that has put President Felipe Calderon under intense pressure.