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Where are Mexicos Zapatistas headed?

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Where are Mexicos Zapatistas headed?

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By Lance Selfa | July 8, 2005 | Page 4 IT WAS with its characteristic flair for surprise that the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) declared a “red alert” on June 20. In a communiqué issued by Internet that shot around the world, the EZLN told its supporters that it was taking this precaution in preparation for a meeting of its supporters in Chiapas to consider “a new step in the struggle, a step which entails, among other things, risking the much or little which has been achieved and worsening the persecution and harassment of the Zapatista communities.” At the same time, the Zapatistas released a letter in which they blasted all of the political parties of the Mexican establishment, including the party of the presumed favorite in the 2006 presidential race, Andrés Manuel López Obrador–the populist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). It’s unlikely that the red alert was a response to a government attack that was about to be launched. Of course, the possibility of such a

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