From: Luis Quispe <lquispe-AT-blythe.org>
Subject: Re: EZLN, PRD provide "hot" welcome to Zedillo's Tabasco tour
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 01:06:38 -0400 (EDT)


>uhh...There you belong big mouth Godenas...Zapatistas...Captain Emiliano
and subcomander Marquitos and his pipe...free elections...opossition....
elections...candidate for congress. Marcelina (from Manhattan not Queens,
I moved...how is your "friend" Senator Dodd?...big mouth...you cannot help 
it, don't you?...hurry ask your pupil to reply this...be a god mentor..
Zapatista...why not the MRTA, they are alike?)
 
> In a sign of growing unity between the legal arm of the EZLN, the opposition
> Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD), and its affiliated trade unions,
> massive demonstrations, including blocked highways and oil wells, greeted
> Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo's state visit to this southeastern
> province.   At one point, Zedillo's entourage, which included Army armored
> personnel carriers,  motorized battering rams, and a heavy tank, was so
> besieged by the thousands of angry demonstrators, that Zedillo himself had
> to flee and pursue the remainder of the tour from the safety of a
> helipcopter.    In fact, his tour, which was slated to last three days, was
> curtailed on Tuesday after only one.
> 
> Highly visible in the huge crowds were numerous masked members of the
> Zapitista movement from neighboring Chiapas, and nearly half of the banners
> referred to the January, 1994 uprising, which shook Latin American
> neo-liberalism to its roots.    At one point in the demonstration, Zapitista
> members, including Ernesto Horan, linked arms with local and national PRD
> leaders, and officials from transportation, electrical and teachers unions.    
> 
> The anti-corruption campaigns of Zapitista-linked groups in Tabasco have
> snowballed, drawing in not only the PRD and its affiliated labor and
> professional organizations,  but virtually all of the peasant-based mass
> organizations, the rank and file of the oil workers unions, and university
> students (virtually every school above grade level was closed by official
> order in anticipation of trouble during Zedillo's visit).
> 
> It is still unclear, however, what demands beyond the removal of the
> corruption-riddled state administration of Roberto Madrazo will be presented
> by the growing united front of workers, peasants and intellectuals, and
> whether the catchet of the Zapatistas will be sufficient to unite the left
> forces and move forward amidst the rapidly deteriorating political situation. 
> 
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>                            Louis Godena
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