Mexico’s New President Vicente Fox and the Zapatistas

http://www.zcommunications.org/mexicos-new-president-vicente-fox-and-the-zapatistas-by-justin-podur

I was talking to a Mexican friend who voted for Vicente Fox in the July elections, and told her I was a Zapatista supporter. She was appalled. “You’re not Mexican, you don’t know what’s going on there. You can’t know from spending a few months there. I’m from there and the decisions made by the government affect me and my family. And I’m against the Zapatistas.”

“Okay fine,” I said. “Now give me a real reason.”

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