Word: ocosingo
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...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...
...already 8:30 a.m. on election day, and the one-room, dirt-floor polling station in San Miguel de Ocosingo, deep in the rebel territory of Chiapas state, should have opened half an hour ago. But ballot boxes had not arrived. The door stayed closed, and the line of expectant voters outside grew longer. Was this another case of ballot hijacking by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, the P.R.I.? Finally, Caralampio Amparo Perez, an election official, emerged waving one of his replacement boxes over his head. He had improvised with cookie cartons; each had a hole cut into the side...
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