Word: tepeyac
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government claimed that the offensive successfully reasserted its authority throughout the region. Indeed, in Guadalupe Tepeyac, where the Zapatista leader who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos made his headquarters most of last year, a garrison of 20 soldiers did seem to be in command--but in command of a ghost town. Elsewhere too, Zapatistas were neither fighting nor giving up but melting away into the jungle, sometimes with families in tow. As a car carrying two journalists approached the village of Oventik, 20 men who had been hoeing at the ground ran into their huts, grabbed clothes, firewood and babies...
Still, the mood in much of the state is more upbeat than it has been in months. In one of the Zapatistas' jungle strongholds, the settlement of Guadalupe Tepeyac, Tacho praised Zedillo for the 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...
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