Tel-Chai Nation

Mark in Mexico has another update on the aftermath of the violent teachers strike in Oaxaca. With screwballs like those running the scene there, man, I can't say I'd want to pay a tourist visit there in the forseeable future.

But if there's anything in Mark's reports that really shocked me, it's the looting and destruction of a lady's family-owned business:

Many of the shops and boutiques were open for business and that surprised me. Even the ones with shattered windows and doors were open. I did not attempt to pass through the teachers' lines to see what had become of the zócalo. However, the wife of the owner of the Marquis hotel and restaurant which occupies all of the north side of the zócalo has children attending my sons' school. I saw her this morning and she was in tears at the school. She said she did not know how the family was going to recover all that they had lost. After the initial confrontation Wednesday morning, the teachers counterattacked and regained control of the zócalo. They commandeered a city bus and smashed it into her hotel. She said they had broken into the restaurant also. They had carried off all of the televisions and VCR's from the rooms, paintings and carpets, telephones and computers from the rooms, lobby and offices, tables and chairs from the restaurant, kitchen supplies and equipment, just about everything that was not nailed down. Her families business is destroyed. All that is left is a shell and part of that is heavily damaged.

The moonbat news sources like IndyMedia, which are among the few mainstream media sources covering the riots in Mexico, have called all that happened justified. If that's how they're going to go about their "business" at the expense of an innocent woman and justify/encourage destroying other people's property, then maybe they should just leave the US, since they clearly don't appreciate any of the democratic and economic freedom that the country worked so hard to provide them with.

Labels: Latin America