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Can Chiapas Change?

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by Garance Burke Oct. 3, 2000 After Vicente Fox toppled the PRI in Mexico’s presidential elections, Chiapanecans elected their own opposition mayor. But Zapatista rebels and sympathetic citizens are tempering their hopes with realism, knowing that the province’s chronic political violence will probably not end soon. A state police officer guards a PRI propaganda kiosk The opposition’s stunning victory that shattered the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) 71-year hold on power in Mexico this summer sparked hopes that the long-running conflict in the state of Chiapas might be resolved. Those hopes rose still higher in August, when Chiapanecans elected their first non-PRI governor, a 46-year-old lawyer named Pablo Salazar. But continuing political violence throughout Chiapas will make it difficult to reach reconciliation anytime soon. Since 1994, when the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army rose up in arms demanding land, justice, and rights for the indigenous descendan

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