Clashes erupt in Oaxaca, Mexico

November 21, 2006

The demonstrators attacked police with molotov cocktails and rocks and police responded by using tear gas, causing residents, tourists and street vendors to flee the area. The poor southern state of Oaxaca has been gripped for six months by the kind of violent political crisis that many in Washington and Wall Street thought had ended when Mexicans voted the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, out of the presidency six years ago.