A symposium on immigration brought Ulises Ruiz, Governor of Oaxaca, to New York Saturday where he was to appear at a press conference at the Mexican Consulate. Protestors surrounded the restaurant where he was eating lunch and made sure the press conference didn't happen.
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Ulises Ruiz, Governor of Oaxaca and target of a popular uprising in his home state, came to New York for a staged immigration sypmosium Saturday with a group of Mexican Governors. For his corrupt management of Oaxaca, support of paramilitaries to brutal repress his people, and the klling of NYC indymedia journalist Bradley Will, a proper welcoming committee was formed to confront him at Salute Restaurant before a planned press conference at the Mexican Consulate. Dozens of protestors held a press conference of their own out of front of the Consulate building then surrounded the restaurant. The protestors delayed the Governors long past the time of the press conference, until they had to be escorted out of the restaurant under heavy police protection and quickly sped away.
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