"Zapatista strongholds attacked in southern Mexico "

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texasleo (795 posts) Oct-30-01, 03:52 AM (ET) "Zapatista strongholds attacked in southern Mexico " http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/160267p-1520468c.html SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (October 29, 2001 8:05 p.m. EST) - With a liberal political party's backing, members of a coffee-growing syndicate attacked two hamlets controlled by Zapatista sympathizers over the weekend, throwing stones, smashing windows and threatening locals with machetes, authorities said Monday. At a press conference, local police said dozens of members of the Regional Organization of Coffee Cultivators, based in the nearby city of Ocosingo, stormed the Zapatista stronghold of Ernesto Che Guevara late Saturday. The attack, which authorities in Che Guevara claimed was organized by leaders from the Democratic Revolution Party, destroyed a mural in the central square, ransacked a general store and blocked the main highway so that police reinforcements couldn't arrive. "We blame the government for allowing these types of things to happen," police said in a statement. A PRD spokesman said his party had nothing to do with the protests. A smaller group of Ocosingo coffee workers threw stones and threatened locals in the nearby rebel town of Moises Gandhi, police there said. Democratic Revolution party leaders helped organize both protests in an attempt to undermine the support for Zapatista rebels, said Abilino Arcos, a spokesman for police in Che Guevara. Arcos said many supporters of the staunchly liberal party known as the PRD abandoned the faction in favor of the Zapatista movement, triggering an often violent feud between the rebels and remaining PRD supporters. ---------more--------   Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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Subject     Author     Message Date     ID    ¡Viva Zapata! mobuto Oct-30-01 1    Here we go again 0007 10/30/2001 2        What is V. Fox doing to oppress? w4rma 10/30/2001 3            fox is not trying to anything texasleo 10/30/2001 5  La lucha sigue! gratuitous Oct-30-01 4

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mobuto (268 posts) Oct-30-01, 03:56 AM (ET) 1. "¡Viva Zapata!" The Zapatistas named a town after Che Guevara? Uh, Ok... Liberals fighting leftists is never good. Infighting will be the death of us all. "When, in countries that are called civilized, we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government." -Thomas Paine   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

0007 (99 posts) Oct-30-01, 06:30 AM (ET) 2. "Here we go again" More terrorism. Poverty oppresses the spirit, guess who the terrorist are?? Mr. Fox (the great Mexican leader and friend of Mr. Bush) This will get nasty. These people will not be oppressed any longer and force will not control.   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

w4rma (1011 posts) Oct-30-01, 07:34 AM (ET) 3. "What is V. Fox doing to oppress?" "On July 2, 2000, Vicente Fox, the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), became the first member of Mexico's opposition in seven decades to take the presidency away from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),..." Source: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2001/0306fox.htm The Players in Mexico: Militant Left: Zapatista rebels Left: PRD = Party of the Democratic Revolution Center-Left but totalitarian?: PRI = Party of Institutional Revolution Conservative: PAN = Party of National Action -Rick http://www.rickswarehouse.com/   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

texasleo (795 posts) Oct-30-01, 04:47 PM (ET) 5. "fox is not trying to anything" The Zapatistas are in the news anytime there is a recession. (94-95).   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

gratuitous (112 posts) Oct-30-01, 10:39 AM (ET) 4. "La lucha sigue!" Wow, I had hoped this sort of thing was on the wane. I find it a bit hard to believe that it was PRD-backed elements, though. On the good news front, a couple of groups of displaced persons in Chenalho County have been able to return to their villages, and though one of the villages hasn't been entirely happy to see the refugees return, no further outbreaks of violence have occurred against Las Abejas returnees. The word mercy's gonna have a new meaning When we are judged by the children of our slaves --Bruce Cockburn   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Top

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