An uneasy waiting game for Mexico, and Marcos

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Elections are due to be held in Mexico in 2000, and the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas has still has not been settled. An agreement was reached in 1996, but has yet to be implemented by the government. Planned legal changes were sent to Congress in 1998 but Congress has not passed them. Human rights organizations are concerned that security forces are carrying out a campaign of harassment and nurder, but this is denied by officials. The government is seeking to expel foreign visitors to the region.

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Fortress Mexico

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Mexico has an understandable reluctance to allow outsiders to intervene in its internal affairs. Mexico has in the past suffered authoritarian rule by Spain, the loss of Texas and morthern areas including California to the US, and has had an emperor, Maximilian, imposed by war in the 1980s. The United Nations (UN) has offered aid in solving problems in Chiapas state, but this offer has been rejected by Mexico though Mexico appears unlikely to be able to solve the problem alone.

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Subcomandante Marcos: the Mexican grand tour

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Mexican Zapatistas are traveling to Mexico City for discussions on indigenous peoples.

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