[NYTr] Mexico's Marcos Says War looming in Chiapas
 
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:48:53 -0600 (CST)


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Platts Commodity News English - Dec 18, 2007

War looming in Mexico's Chiapas region: rebel leader

Zapatista rebel leader "Subcomandante" Marcos warned Monday of 
possible coming war in Mexico's impoverished southern state of 
Chiapas, and announced his departure from public life.

"War, like fear, also has a smell, and now its fetid odor is starting 
to permeate our land," Marcos told a meeting of social groups here, 
14 years after he launched a violent peasant uprising.

Marcos said the "supposedly leftist" local and state administrations 
in Chiapas were to blame for rising tensions, and that the Democratic 
Revolution Party-dominated Chiapas government was intent on 
destroying the autonomous communities the Zapatistas have helped set 
up. He said that incidents have been building up in the territory, 
but complained that for the media, the Zapatistas only become news 
"when we kill or are dying."

Marcos said his Zapatista Army of National Liberation for two years 
has been trying to set itself up as a political movement in all 
Mexico, but that it was ready once again to stand alone and defend 
itself from attack.

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