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<>.<>.<> Los Angeles, Alta California <>.<>.<>July 10, 2007
Mexican insurgents bomb PEMEX facilities
The Mexican government has confirmed that the bombings of Petroleos Mexicanos facilities that took place today and last week were carried out by the insurgent guerrilla group Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR). The blast today destroyed a natural gas valve-control station in Corregidora in the central state of Queretaro. On July 5 the EPR blew up gas pipeline in the state of Guanajuato. The insurgents utilized a total of eight sophisticated bombs in the two blasts.
The EPR said the bombings will continue until President Felipe Calderon and the governor of the state of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, free three of their members that were taken prisoners during the Oaxaca rebellion last year. On November 6, 2006 insurgents detonated three large bombs in Mexico City in protest of federal and state government repression in the state of Oaxaca. On November 14, 2006 the insurgents warned that there would be more bombings if the governor of Oaxaca, Ulises Ruiz, did not resign.
The EPR began operations in the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero two years after the 1994 uprising of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) in the state of Chiapas. The EPR ambushed the Mexican army repeatedly with sophisticated bombs whereas the Zapatistas avoided conflict with Mexican authorities after their initial uprising in January 1994. In 1996, the EPR attacked government offices in the Oaxaca tourist resort of Huatulco, killing a number of federal soldiers.
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