Document #1358902
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
The secretary at the Municipal Agency
(Agencia Municipal) of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, provided
the following information in a 7 May 1999 telephone interview with
the Research Directorate.
The Municipal Agency of Puerto Escondido
depends on the municipality of San Pedro Mixtepec. The current
municipal agency is composed of one municipal agent, Guilelbaldo
Mijangos Calvo, and three district councillors (cabildos),
Miguel Rodriguez, Fortino Carbajal Navaro and Luis Alvarez, all
from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Their mandates
began on 18 January 1999. Prior to this agency, the agents for the
period between 1996 and 1998 were Lorenzo Hernandez and Eduardo
Ortiz Jones Lopez both of the PRI and the district councillor was
Nicolas Ramirez Aragon, also of the PRI.
Additional and/or corroborating information
on the municipal elections in Puerto Escondido could not be found
among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.
No reports on whether candidates of the
Party for Democratic Revolution (PRD) were harassed from 1995 to
1998 could be found among the sources consulted by the Research
Directorate.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the
list of additional sources consulted in researching this
Information Request.
Reference
Agencia Municipal de Puerto Escondido,
Oaxaca, Mexico. 7 May 1999. Telephone interview with the
secretary.
Additional Sources Consulted
Observación Electoral: Informes.
Comisión Estatal de Derechos
Humanos de Oaxaca. Website.
Excélsior [Mexico City].
1996-1999.
La Jornada [Mexico City].
1995-1999.
Latinamerica Press [Lima].
1995-1999.
One source consulted did not provide
information on the requested subject.
Electronic sources: IRB Databases,
LEXIS/NEXIS, Internet and WNC News Connection.