In Mexico, leaders of the popular uprising in the state of Oaxaca are vowing to continue their struggle in the face of the arrest of Flavio Sosa. Sosa was arrested Monday in Mexico City after announcing the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People, APPO, planned to hold negotiations with the government of Felipe Calderon. He is now being held in a maximum-security prison.

APPO lawyer Israel Ochoa Lara: “This stage we are living is the moment of government oppression against everything this movement represents. This doesn’t mean the movement is over or has been taken down. What’s happening is that the government has gone on the offensive with the intent of disarming the movement, and that’s why the most visible activists have been persecuted.”

The Mexican government has yet to explain why Sosa was arrested just hours before he was to meet state officials.