Indians seize Mexican radio station in WTO protest
( 2003-09-12 11:06) (Agencies)
Indian sympathizers of the Zapatista rebels briefly seized a state-owned
radio station on Thursday to read a denunciation of the World Trade
Organization.
Several hundred people took part in a march to and seizure of station XERA.
They then left.
An unidentified man read a statement opposing the WTO, which is meeting in
Cancun, Mexico, as well as the Plan Puebla-Panama, the North American Free Trade
Agreement, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank,
the World Bank "and all multilateral plans that seek to exploit us and rob us of
our riches."
He said that free-trade policies "have only impoverished the most vulnerable
sectors" while making the rich richer.
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