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Article: OPINION: Chiapas Conflict Not Mexico's Only Indian War.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- May 13, 1999
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 10 -- The Maya Indian rebels of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas won international attention with their dramatic uprising on New Year's morning of 1994, the precise moment that NAFTA took effect.
The ski-masked Indian men and women with their antiquated rifles briefly took over four towns in the Chiapas highlands, declared war on the Mexican government and denounced the free trade agreement as a "death sentence" for Mexico's Indian peoples.
Since then, the EZLN and the government have engaged in a slow and unsteady peace dialogue with the government. In ...
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