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...fairly clean election. His dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) also was leading in a whopping 278 of 300 congressional races and in virtually all 64 Senate races. Why did Mexicans stick with the PRI, in their first chance to dump it in 65 years? Consider the uprising of the Zapatista rebels in January, the assassination of the PRI's first candidate in March, and two high-profile kidnappings. "It has been a very volatile year," says TIME Latin America Bureau Chief Laura Lopez. "People are looking for stability...
...black-masked leader of the insurgent Zapatista National Liberation Army, who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, summoned nearly 5,000 activists deep into the Lacandon forest in Chiapas state last week to deliver his campaign promise. In an open-air amphitheater hastily erected of logs, as storm clouds gathered overhead, Marcos issued a stern warning to the government of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. If there is fraud in the upcoming national election, he declared, there will be an explosion of protest that will shut down Mexico. Just as he stopped speaking, a powerful downpour brought the four-day gathering...
Eight months after they launched a bloody uprising against Mexico's ruling government, members of the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army and thousands of sympathizers warned that they will launch a campaign of "civil resistance" if Sunday's presidential elections are perceived to be fraudulent. Polls showed Ernesto Zedillo of the incumbent Institutional Revolutionary Party with a 27-point lead over his rivals...
...chronic problems. For the first time in more than 20 years, guerrillas reappeared as a political force last January when an indigenous peasant movement rose up and seized several towns in the southern state of Chiapas, leaving at least 145 dead. On Friday those rebels, who call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army, suspended their deliberations on a peace accord with the government, citing the country's uncertainties. Taking impetus from the revolt, discontented groups rose across the country, staging sit-ins and land grabs. Then two weeks ago, Alfredo Harp Helu, president of Mexico's largest bank, was kidnapped...
...Year's Day, when the Zapatista forces, some 2,000 lightly armed Indian and peasant guerrillas, occupied small towns and one city in the Chiapas highlands, the government's response was to mobilize the army to crush them. But as the images of bombings and bloodied civilians flickered across the world's television screens, Salinas changed course. He declared a cease- fire and sent a peace negotiator to talk things over with the guerrillas...