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...cops. But in an interview last week with TIME, Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, a former human-rights ombudsman with little prosecutorial experience, conceded that "Mexico needs a new culture of legality." He plans to announce sweeping new provisions for international participation in the recruiting and training of all Mexican federal police, not just elite antidrug cops. But Madrazo's immediate concern is showing the terrified peasants of Chiapas that their attackers will go to prison for their alleged atrocities. If so, it will be something of a first...
...believed to play in the crime wave. Last week the Zedillo government had more than 40 people, including Acteal's mayor, Jacinto Arias Cruz, behind bars for their involvement in the massacre. Some of the accused killers reportedly have ties to local and state police. Much of the Mexican public was calling for the resignation of Chiapas Governor Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro, who showed no signs of complying. By Saturday, though, the crisis had claimed interior minister Emilio Chuayffet, who resigned amid charges that he had ignored the death squads. He was replaced by agricultural minister Francisco Labastida...
Racially, 59.7 percent identified themselves as white or Caucasian, 19.8 percent Asian-American, 11.3 percent African-American or black, 3.2 Mexican American or Chicano, 1.1 percent Puerto Rican, 4.5 percent other Latino or Hispanic and 0.4 percent Native American...
This past weekend, self-styled progressive candidates Jobe G. Danganan '99 and Kamil E. Redmond '00, who are running as a ticket, received the support of the Black Students Association (BSA) and of RAZA, the undergraduate Mexican-American and Latino students' organization...
...boycott defenders included campus groups such as RAZA, a Mexican-American/Chicano/Latino student organization; the Progressive Student Labor Movement; and UNITE, an umbrella organization for undergraduate activists...