Word: amparo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebel territory of Chiapas state, should have opened half an hour ago. But ballot boxes had not arrived. The door stayed closed, and the line of expectant voters outside grew longer. Was this another case of ballot hijacking by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I.? Finally, Caralampio Amparo Perez, an election official, emerged waving one of his replacement boxes over his head. He had improvised with cookie cartons; each had a hole cut into the side and covered with a plastic bag to create a makeshift window. The voters nodded, and by day's end they and the country...