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Strained by the ongoing political conflict between former President Carlos Salinas and current President Ernesto Zedillo, as well as a largescale loss of investor backing, the ailing peso continues to fall. Yesterday, the peso was worth fifteen American cents...
...with rebels in the southern state of Chiapas? Does the governing party's electoral defeat in Mexico's second biggest city, Guadalajara, and in the state of Jalisco portend a loss of political control or a heartening turn toward genuine democracy--or maybe both? Most important, does Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, less than three months into his six-year term, have a consistent strategy for dealing with political and financial crises, or is he just grasping at straws...
Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, who has been under intense pressure to end the year-old rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas, dispatched hundreds of troops and police to capture the leaders of the uprising. For the first time, Zedillo identified the elusive guerrilla commander, known as "Subcomandante Marcos," by his full name: Rafael Sebastian GuillEn Vicente...
...words between the government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Chiapas rebels ended last week, and real warfare resumed. In Nuevo Momon, a village in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, sniper fire rained down on a force of Mexican soldiers, killing two of them. Near the town of Cacalomacan, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, 250 police and soldiers surrounded a group of militants and flushed them out of a farmhouse after a two-hour gun battle. In other strongholds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or E.Z.L.N., hundreds of heavily armed soldiers...
...transports have poured into dozens of villages, frightening thousands of people who had secretly fed and supported the Zapatistas into fleeing into the jungle. Lopez reports: "They can''t eat ? there''s no food out there. Many of these people are literally hiding in trees right now." President Ernesto Zedillo, meanwhile, is gaining support in Mexico''s Congress for a general amnesty for any Zapatistas who give up now. Two communiques from the rebels today were "fairly belligerent," Lopez says, but "they don''t have much choice if they want to survive...