Word: moctezuma
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...promises electoral reforms at both federal and state levels to put an end to corrupt campaign practices and fraudulent vote counts. It will also allow the election of Mexico City's mayor, until now chosen by the President. ``Mexico was the ugly duckling of democracy,'' exulted Interior Minister Esteban Moctezuma, as he waited for his car after the ceremony. ``That's all over...
Meanwhile in Chiapas, the new round of talks began between the Zapatistas, led by ski-masked Subcomandante Marcos, and a government delegation headed by Interior Minister Moctezuma. After a four-hour meeting, the government agreed to pull several hundred occupying troops out of two villages sympathetic to the rebel cause, while the Zapatistas agreed to extend a truce indefinitely. The two sides remained far apart on an accord to end the uprising, though...