Oaxaca Protest Photos

Mexican Federal Police officers arrive in Oaxaca, Mexico Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police armed with assault rifles and riot shields stormed into this tourist city Sunday, bypassing barricades, touching off fierce street battles and surrounding protesters who have been holding the city center for five months. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Protesters run past a burning barricade in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican federal police push back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican federal police push back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexican federal police push back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases

Mexican federal police advance as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation. (AP Photo/Pablo Spencer)

A Federal Police officer is confronted by a Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) member in downtown Oaxaca, Mexico Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

Mexican federal police push back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

A protester holds up a poster as she stands in front of a bulldozer manned by federal police at the entrance to the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca on Sunday, bypassing or extinguishing barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence. (AP Photo/Luis Alberto Cruz)

Mexican federal police armed with water canons push back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

As fires burn at a barricade in the background, a protester holds up a plastic tube as federal police push them back while entering the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

[The plastic tube is a natural gas pipeline marker.]

A Mexican federal police truck pushes back protesters as they enter the city of Oaxaca, Mexico on Sunday Oct. 29, 2006. Federal police with assault rifles and riot-shields advanced into Oaxaca, pushing past barricades of burning tires and tree trunks in this normally picturesque tourist destination wracked by five months of protests and violence that began with a teachers protest demanding salary increases and later asking for the governor's resignation.(AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)