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Organizing Dissent By Maria Lorena Cook p112,113 0271025905 2004 Penn State Press
 * Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1981, won municipal elections
 * Allied with Mexican Communist Party PCM Partido Comunista Mexicano
 * Coalicion Obrero Campesino Estudiantil del Istmo Worker Peasant Student Coalition of the Isthmus grant is a bird

Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico By Aracely Burguete Cal y Mayor 8790730194 IWGIA (February 1, 2002) p117-124
 * Emerged in 1974
 * initially made up of indigenous Zapotec farmers and supported by sectors of Juchitan society who were not in agreement with government
 * linked to the theories of democratic emergence and popular defense movements
 * organized discontented population
 * demanded transparent electoral processes in Isthmus region
 * was able to grow by diversifying and incorporating new sectors
 * born as part of the peasant struggle to recover their lands,
 * carried out strikes and union fights for wage improvements
 * 1981 win
 * COCEI Popular City Council
 * goal of rescuing Zapotec culture
 * demanded urban development with autonomy
 * due to abuses COCEI was exiled from government
 * PRI was threatened by the COCEI City Council
 * Feared state in a state
 * Officers of the court firing on the Municipal Palace
 * Oaxaca government subordinated the City Council
 * Expropriated the functions of the City Council
 * Federal army present in the Palace
 * Murders of Aldermen
 * Media smear campaign, news, radio, tv
 * Stated City Council was linked to Nicaraguan and Guatemalan guerrillas
 * Started literacy campaigns in shanty towns
 * In coordination with the Independent University of Guerrero, found the preparatory school and the Popular Teacher Training College of the Isthmus.
 * Popular City Council Radio
 * August 3, 1983 the government removed recognition
 * Called extraordinary session of Chamber of Deputies, removing all municipal powers
 * 3 days prior a gathering of the COCEI was fired on.
 * August 6, a referendum was called by 30,000 people from Juchitan
 * decided to maintain the City Council out of pocket
 * December 13, 1983, municipal palace evacuated
 * army, police and federal officers, arrested 250 people
 * thousands rallied to the city centre
 * federal army units from Oaxaca and Veracruz arrived to break up barricades setup by people, took 150 added prisoners
 * 1989 re-elected?

Mexican Suite: A History of Photography in Mexico By Olivier Debroise p149 University of Texas Press 0292716117
 * had the first socialist city council in Mexico

Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico By Edward J. McCaughan p86,87 Westview Press 1998 0813335477
 * founded in early 1970's
 * won municipal elections in 1981
 * removed in 1983
 * controversially participated in coalition city government with PRI in 86-89
 * won Juchitan municipal elections in 1989-1992

Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present Nicholas John Cull, David Culbert 2003 ABC-CLIO 1576078205 p249
 * founded 1973
 * 1981 won
 * promoted indigenous culture
 * advertised in Zapotec language
 * removed in 1983

Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change: Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico Antonio Annino, Enrique Semo Calev Duke University Press (July 2007) 082234002X p332,333
 * Founded in 1974
 * allied with PCM
 * founded in Juchitan, Oaxaca
 * 1976 won election for Communal Lands Commission
 * 1981, formed first leftist municipal government in country
 * 1983 removed


 * Ayuntamiento Popular Peoples Government