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Article: Peasants' Golf War puts Mexico in a spin
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 15, 1995
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Tepoztlan, Mexico - They have dubbed it the Golf War but it's
more like a Mexican mini-revolution. The townsfolk of this idyllic
valley community, some of them sons of the revolutionary hero
Emiliano Zapata, who was born nearby, have ousted the local
government and police and barricaded themselves in.
The enemy, as always, is the rich and powerful. But this time a
certain Jack Nicklaus is on the townsfolk's hit list. They are up
in arms, at least with sticks and stones, against a huge golf
course, hotel and tourist- project which they say would ruin the
landscape, squander water reserves, threaten wildlife and disturb
the bones of their ancestors.
Mr Nicklaus's Golden Bear Course Management ...