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...beside me scratched my arm as he helped his wife out of the bus with their now-empty egg crates. The driver leaned around to tell me that the next stop was Oventic, the Zapatista camp to which I had been invited to meet the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) Commission...

Author: By Ayla Matanock, | Title: An Untaken Opportunity | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

Robles says that the key to Arias' triumph as the Partido de Liberacion de National (PLN) candidate, which came after aggressive inter-party contention in the primary, was his idea that "technologija" had to be brought into the government. His championing of professionalism was a subtle way of emphasizing the same theme, that the days of the older political establishment had been eclipsed by a younger generation...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Making `A Risk for Peace' Pay Off | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...been secret: he wanted to acquire the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda--which is separated from Angola by the Congo River--along with whatever else he could grab. When the Portuguese agreed to leave Angola, Zairean and South African troops joined local groups to fight the Movimento Popular de Liberacion d'Angola (MPLA), which had established itself as the best-organized and most popular nationalist movement. In this "Second War of Independence," (the first was against Portugal), Zairean troops invaded Angola in support of the FNLA, headed by Mobutu's brother-in-law Holden Roberto--obviously Mobutu's hope...

Author: By Neva SEIDMAN Makgetla, | Title: "Massacres" and a New Cold War in Zaire | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...police and guerrilla-banditos has exacerbated the tension in Guerrero, which has traditionally been Mexico's most warlike and trouble-some section. In March a former state governor and PRI chief was assassinated there by left-wing terrorists. On April 22 a group calling itself the "Comite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" announced that if a Guerrero coffee millionaire did not pay 350,000 pesos ransom, his son would be executed. With the demand the group cited the names of six campesinos for whose murder the millionaire is allegedly responsible. On April 27 government agents arrested six suspects...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Letter from Mexico Sabotage and Violence South of the Border | 5/6/1971 | See Source »

...country without opposition will be decided by the determination of young Mexicans to force reform. Those who see Mexico now as a political volcano expect students to do the erupting. The only guerrilla group that has acted openly in the last month is the "Cemite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" led by veteran revolutionary Genaro Vasquez. Among the groups outside of Guerrero it is difficult to say which are guerrillas and which are banditos. Mexico's healthy but deeply submerged communist party does not have the strength to be a threat to the government. Any change in the situation will...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Letter from Mexico Sabotage and Violence South of the Border | 5/6/1971 | See Source »

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