Date: Tue, 28 Feb 95 16:40:10 CST
From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
Subject: Jornada summary, 2/26 (English)


This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of the Austin Comite
de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Mexico.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:46:21 -0600 (CST)
From: Leopoldo Rodriguez <leopoldo-AT-tobin>
To: Harry Cleaver <hmcleave-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
Subject: Jornada summary, 2/26 (fwd)

Reporters on a two day visit to villages in the municipality of Las 
Margaritas report that a severe shortage of food and medicine is taking 
place due to the military cordon in the area.  Hunger, dhyarrea, 
disentery, chicken-pox and respiratory tract illnesses have become 
widespread.

Villagers demand that the army leaves the region and respond to the 10 
points demanded by the EZLN on Jan. 1, 1994.  Some communities openly 
admit to being zapatista, while the others agree with their demands.  
They all ask not to be identified fearing reprisal in the hands of the 
army. 

Those villagers that have stayed in the villages do not come out of their 
houses to collect their beans and coffee for fear of being accused of 
being a member of the EZLN.One of them stated: "The army should not 
persecute the leaders of the EZLN, we do not persecute the heads of the PRI."