Word: zapatistas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zapatista uprising in the impoverished southern state set the stage for the recent democratization of Mexico, says Padgett. "We're going to see unprecedented pressure for the resignation of senior state government officials, who are accused of allowing the massacre to have happened by failing to respond to the warning signs that had been coming for months...
...recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when it should be siding with the rebels...
Right now it would be hard to make a case for consistency. Only five days after sending troops and tanks to occupy 18 villages in Chiapas that had been controlled by Zapatista rebels, Zedillo abruptly called off the offensive. He ordered the soldiers to do nothing that might lead to 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...
...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...
...Chiapas a Zapatista calling herself Major Ana Maria read to Mexican reporters a communique, supposedly from Marcos, that said the Zapatistas were willing to negotiate, ``but it is necessary that the government takes out its troops first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners...