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Top Comments (The Narco News Bulletin): The Oaxaca´s Sierra Mixteca is one of the most impoverished regions in Mexico. One of the poorest regions in Mexico's second poorest and most indigenous state, the Mixteca has become a land without men, most of whom have migrated north to the US and other regions of Mexico.

Reporter's Notebook: Rich Gibson (The Narco News Bulletin): US teacher union leaders are headed for Oaxaca. They are not friends. The struggle in Oaxaca has always been more than the struggle of school workers for better teaching conditions, wages, and benefits. The lessons of Oaxaca can be learned everywhere.

Reporter's Notebook: George Salzman (The Narco News Bulletin): “Harvard contributes to reconstructing Oaxaca” is the grand headline splashed across the Sunday, March 25, 2007 front page of Noticias , the major daily newspaper published in Oaxaca City. When I saw that announcement this morning I thought, “Oh, my God! (Never mind that I’m an atheist.)

Reporter's Notebook: RJ Maccani (The Narco News Bulletin): Bike Rides for Oaxaca! If you are in New York City, join the Friends of Brad Will this Wednesday, November 1st for a Bike Ride in Solidarity with the People of Oaxaca!

Reporter's Notebook: RJ Maccani (The Narco News Bulletin): We wondered how many people would show up. The call for today's bike ride for Oaxaca didn't even get widely circulated until yesterday afternoon and many of us have been going non-stop since finding out about Brad's death on Friday.

Reporter's Notebook: Gregory Berger (The Narco News Bulletin): After a full day;s assault, the thousands of Mexican Federal Police that invaded Oaxaca City today have now occupied the town square and other key parts of the city. But there are many this morning that maintain that the fight is far from over.

Dan's Blog (The Narco News Bulletin): The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) reports that two civilians died in confrontations today with the Federal Preventive Police: Social Security Institute worker Roberto López Hernández and nurse and APPO safety commission member Jorge Alberto Beltrán.

Reporter's Notebook: Nancy Davies (The Narco News Bulletin): The war is on in Oaxaca. It began at 8:00 AM with the gathering of the PFP and an infiltration by porros (hired thugs) along with state police in plain clothes. There are 5,000 PFP and many people if they're out there.

Reporter's Notebook: Benjamin Melançon (The Narco News Bulletin): How many slants make a lie? AP's Mark Stevenson papers over life and death Associated Press writer Mark Stevenson, in an Oct. 30 article "Protesters vow to retake Oaxaca center," inflicts on readers a mass of vague statements that "falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details," to quote one George Orwell.

Dan's Blog (The Narco News Bulletin): For just over an hour the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) have been marching on Oaxaca City. Police are advancing with water cannon tanks and riot shields. They have cleared several barricades but others are holding their ground.