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Talks between government and guerrilla leaders begin this week to bring to an end the Zapatista uprising in the state of Chiapas. The negotiations were announced 24 hours after the guerrillas released the former Chiapas Governor, whom they had been holding hostage since the rebellion began on New Year...
Nearly 100 people were killed in fighting as peasant rebels seized four towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on New Year's Day. Announcing that their struggle was "for work, land, housing, food, health care, education, independence, freedom, democracy, justice and peace," the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, composed largely of Indian descendants of the Maya, declared war on the government of President Carlos Salinas. Mexican armed forces used tanks, planes, rockets and helicopter gunships to drive the guerrillas -- estimated to number as many as 1,500 -- into heavily forested mountain areas near the Guatemalan border...
...cubist canvases a lot bigger and more fiercely colored than those of most of his contemporaries, but they strike a peculiar stance between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek...
...cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese in a little Opel, saying Mass in homes of poor villagers. Méndez Arceo even calls himself a Zapatista, after the area's favorite native son, Peasant Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata...
Films of Socialist realism, because they promote a particular ideology, always answer in the affirmative. Womack's answer is less biased, but strangely equivocal. He shows how, when Carranza was overthrown, the remaining Zapatista leaders won pivotal roles in the government of Obregon. The ejido program of the early twenties, which granted previously-claimed land to villages, was a Zapatista victory. The boost given the ejidos by Cárdenas in the thirties nearly satisfied the revolutionary goals of the Morelos villagers...