GENERAL TIMELINE OF EVENTS SINCE THE ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE AND THE ENTRANCE OF FEDERAL FORCES

FRIDAY 27

_Ulises Ruiz’s paramilitary groups shoot at the barricades of Santa Maria and San Bartolo Coyotepec, injuring approximately 20 people, and assassinating 3 people: Esteban López Zurita, the teacher Emilio Alonso Fabián and Brad Will, correspondent from Indymedia New York
_The “death caravan” (paramilitaries in unidentified vehicles) continue their random attacks on various barricades
_At least 15 people are reported to have been kidnapped at different barricades, being brought the following day to the military base in Miahuatlan.

SATURDAY 28

_Elements of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP) arrive at the Oaxaca airport and begin to surround various barricades. Shots are heard in various neighbourhoods.
_The Secretary of the Interior (Secretaria de Gobernacion) gives an ultimatum to the APPO to hand over the city and the government offices that very afternoon
Radio Universidad, the radio of the movement, starts coming under attack.

SUNDAY 29