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Article: Keeping the Faith in Mexico
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Because neither the label "outside agitator" nor "communist
sympathizer" would geographically or politically fit if applied to
Bishop Samuel Ruiz of Chiapas, the Mexican government denounced the
prelate as a liberation theologian. Officials linked him generically
with "certain ideologues and religious men." Ruiz and that gang,
charged the government, are to blame for whipping up some peasant
revolutionaries on Jan. 1 to stage an armed uprising in Chiapas,
Mexico's southernmost and poorest state.
Bishop Ruiz, who has condemned the violence by the rebels known
as Zapatistas, aroused the government's wrath because for years he
has been damning the greater violence - the state's. During the ...