The Salvadoran foreign ministry said unidentified gunmen stopped a freight train in Chahuites, in Oaxaca state, last Thursday.

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In Oaxaca, the state government hopes to pass legislation in the coming legislative term (ie, the next six months) to launch a five-year reform process leading to the formal installation of a new legal system.

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That sentiment is found even in places once linked with political tension, such as Chiapas state and Oaxaca City, where political protest turned into a stand-off in 2006.

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Following his arrest in Oaxaca last year, Habacuc Cruz Cruz, a union organiser in the state, says that he was severely beaten and kept for three to eight days at a time in a tiny cell without light or ventilation, which measured just one square metre.

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This (albeit much smaller) force is most active in Oaxaca, next to Chiapas, and in Guerrero, which has more insurgent groups than any other state.

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