Word: zedillo
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...have poured into dozens of villages, frightening thousands of people who had secretly fed and supported the Zapatistas into fleeing into the jungle. Lopez reports: "They can''t eat ? there''s no food out there. Many of these people are literally hiding in trees right now." President Ernesto Zedillo, meanwhile, is gaining support in Mexico''s Congress for a general amnesty for any Zapatistas who give up now. Two communiques from the rebels today were "fairly belligerent," Lopez says, but "they don''t have much choice if they want to survive...
...what is shaping up as a major political defeat for the Mexican government, TIME Mexico reporter Ron Buchanan says, President Ernesto Zedillo this afternoon called off his hunt forrebel Zapatista leadersin the southern Chiapas state and offered peace talks to their elusive leader, the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos. Hours earlier, the governor of troubled Chiapas resigned after two months in office, bowing to rebel calls for his resignation -- a move that Buchanan says is inconceivable without orders from Zedillo's highly-centralized national government. The president's about-face comes after an ill-fated weekend effort to hunt down Zapatista leaders...
...foreign goods. Under NAFTA the country accelerated its consumption of imported products ranging from shampoo to computers that drove thousands of inefficient domestic firms out of business. Now many Mexican companies can't find local replacements for foreign suppliers, whose prices have jumped as much as 50% since Zedillo devalued the peso...
Despite such success stories, the widespread Mexican hardship puts enormous pressure on Zedillo, a Yale-trained economist who took office Dec. 1, to ease his austerity campaign. But that would almost certainly destroy foreign confidence in Mexico's ability to regain its footing and would thus send the peso slipping again. ``This time there's no free lunch,'' says Mauricio Gonzalez, managing partner of a Mexico City consulting firm...
...universal awareness of Mexico's political and economic drama. Unrestrained plundering and conspicuous political corruption can no longer be the order of the day. But aren't all of us Mexicans sadly united by mounting rage? The former President, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and our new President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, owe every kind of satisfaction to our country. It is their national duty to face the people and make clear to Mexicans and the nations of the world why and how our country has fallen into crisis...