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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)






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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

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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
    


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