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...biodiversity. Their $11-a-night hotel in San Cristobal de las Casas was spartan; little time was left for escapes to the colorful artisan markets and baroque churches of the 16th century city. On an overnight visit to Nuevo Yibeljoj, an impoverished community of displaced Zapatista sympathizers, the visitors lay their sleeping bags on bare planks, fought off mosquitoes and fleas and urinated behind bushes rather than face a stinking outhouse...
Still, the tourists thought Nuevo Yibeljoj was worth the inconvenience. The 96 families there are members of Las Abejas (the Bees), a lay Catholic group that was the target of an infamous 1997 massacre by paramilitaries in nearby Acteal. Amid clucking chickens and barefoot children, they welcomed the tourists with candles, incense and an hour-long prayer ceremony in Tzotzil. Agustin Vazquez, 34, a coffee farmer, told how he heard shots during the massacre, ran to Acteal and found pools of blood everywhere--and his niece and her three children among the dead. He thanked Global Exchange for its contributions...
...down as if he were trying to dry them. Angrily, he asked what the hell the doctors were talking about, and finally he had to be told that the problem centered on two meanings of swallow. But he was too agitated to be appeased. The depth of his trouble lay not only in the inability to make connections but also in the madness that came with recognizing that fact...
...evangelical environment that is "naive, inept or tendentious." Columbia University religion professor Randall Balmer contends that the Laws "flatten the Gospel," while CCC's culture cramps "faith into a dualism between saved and damned, right and wrong, moral and immoral." Immoral often meant liberal: Bright helped lay the groundwork for the religious right. Of his stylistic critics, he notes "Jesus had to be simple so the masses would hear him gladly...
...Still, the tourists thought Nuevo Yibeljoj was worth the inconvenience. The 96 families there are members of Las Abejas (the Bees), a lay Catholic group that was the target of an infamous 1997 massacre by paramilitaries in nearby Acteal. Amid clucking chickens and barefoot children, they welcomed the tourists with candles, incense and an hour-long prayer ceremony in Tzotzil. Agustin Vazquez, 34, a coffee farmer, told how he heard shots during the massacre, ran to Acteal and found pools of blood everywhere--and his niece and her three children among the dead. He thanked Global Exchange for its contributions...