Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:54:02 -0600 (CST) From: Edgar Abarca Rojano <sestrada-AT-fcfm.buap.mx> Subject: M-NEWS: E;AP,EZLN civilian wing calls for constitutional changes, Aug 26 (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:30:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Chiapas95 <owner-chiapas95-AT-mundo.eco.utexas.edu> Subject: E;AP,EZLN civilian wing calls for constitutional changes, Aug 26 This posting has been forwarded to you as a service of Accion Zapatista de Austin. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:53:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Mauricio Banda <mbanda-AT-dch.mty.itesm.mx> Reply-To: mexico2000-AT-mep-d.org Subject: [AP] Cracks widen in PRI; EZLN civilian wing calls for constitutional changes * Mexican rebel's civilian wing calls for constitutional changes By TRINA KLEIST Associated Press Writer Aug 26, 1997 21:03 EDT SAN CAYETANO, Mexico (AP) - The Zapatista rebel movement said Tuesday it will issue a formal call next month for Mexico to revise its constitution to better meet the needs of the poor. The civilian wing of the rebel group said it would demand a new constitutional convention, which would be the country's first since 1917, at its founding Congress in September. The Zapatista Front said the new constitution should preserve the principles of the 1917 document, signed in the final days of the Mexican Revolution, while deleting recent changes that have hurt the poor. The statement apparently referred to measures that allow privatization of state-owned companies and farms. The Zapatista National Liberation Front has been unable to muster broad support for those demands and others - including radical changes in Mexican economic policy - since it staged a brief armed uprising in 1994. But Zapatista leaders hope the civilian wing's founding Congress will draw people from far beyond the largely Indian power base of their movement in the southern state of Chiapas. The rebels have said they expect more than 4,500 participants at the Congress, which begins Sept. 12. They will include supporters from more than 1,100 villages who plan to travel in a caravan from southern Mexico to Mexico City. The caravan will retrace the route taken by their namesake, revolutionary Gen. Emiliano Zapata, when he entered Mexico City in 1914. The meeting comes amid continued tension in Chiapas, where Indian peasants and rebel supporters protested earlier this week against the re-installation of a military camp. (c) 1997, Associated Press -- To unsubscribe from this list send a message containing the words unsubscribe chiapas95 to majordomo-AT-eco.utexas.edu. Previous messages are available from http://www.eco.utexas.edu or gopher://eco.utexas.edu.
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