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The Mexican Preventive Police are preparing to occupy the facilities of the Central Light and Power Company in Mexico City in an attempt to break the militant Mexican Electrical Workers Union, according to the union.The union warns that the quasi-military occupation of the plants could come within a week. Police have been used in the last three years to attempt to break strikes of miners and steelworkers as well as to try to crush popular social movements. Mexican police have previously been used to occupy the facilities of telephone workers and others to break strikes.
This current threat is the latest in a series of attacks on unions by the government of Felipe Calderón. The Calderón administration has spent three years trying to destroy the Mexican Miners and Metal Workers Union
