San Salvador Atenco

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Country	Mexico
San Salvador Atenco / Atenco
— Seat and Municipality —
State	Mexico State
Municipality	Atenco
Municipal Seat	San Salvador Atenco
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
- Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

San Salvador Atenco is the Municipal seat of Atenco, in the Mexican state of Mexico.

1 The town
2 The municipality of Atenco
3 External links
4 References

[edit] The town

San Salvador Atenco received wide media coverage both in 2002^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]and 2006^[5], when it was the site of violent mass protests against the federal and local governments. The 2002 protests were against the planned construction of a new international airport for Mexico City. The construction of the airport was cancelled.

In 2006, violent clashes followed the expulsion of eight downtown flower vendors by the police. The latter confrontation marked the beginning of the 2006 Atenco Riots, which lasted over a week and resulted in over 100 arrests and numerous allegations of human rights abuses committed by the police against the local population.^[6]

[edit] The municipality of Atenco

As municipal seat San Salvador Atenco has governing jurisdiction over the following communities:

Chileleco (Ampliación Nexquipayac Chileleco), Colonia el Salado, Ej. San Salvador Acuexcomac (Ej. la Purísima), Ejido de San Cristóbal Nexquipayac, El Amanal, Granjas Ampliación Santa Rosa, Hacienda la Grande Fracción Uno, La Pastoría, Los Hornos (El Presidio), Nueva Santa Rosa, San Cristóbal Nexquipayac, San Miguel Arcángel (Tepecingo), Santa Isabel Ixtapan, and Zapotlán