Word: robledo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shooting, suspended efforts to catch rebel leaders for whom he had caused arrest warrants to be issued and offered the Zapatistas amnesty and political negotiations if they would lay down their arms. He even went along with one of the rebels' prime demands: the resignation of Chiapas Governor Eduardo Robledo, who the Zapatistas contend had won his post in a fraudulent election...
...sincerity of his efforts. ``The most important factor,'' said the rebel, ``was that he sent his Interior Minister as his direct representative. That shows he's taking the problem seriously.'' The Zapatistas are relatively confident that their prime demand will be met: the removal from office of Eduardo Robledo, the p.r.i. governor whose August election--in the same balloting that elected Zedillo--was deemed fradulent by the rebels. With Zapatista backing, the losing p.r.d. candidate, Amado Avendano, has already been installed as symbolic head of a ``government in rebellion'' in San Cristobal de las Casas, the colonial state capital...