Zapatista Rebel Leader Gives Interview

[struggle4progress]

By JULIE WATSON
Associated Press Writer

Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos .. said that a clash between police and protesters that left a teenager dead and scores injured in a town outside Mexico City last week shows the country's brewing tensions.

He added, however, that the Zapatistas will not boycott the July 2 elections for the presidency, state governorships and congressional seats. He emphasized that his rebel group is now committed to peace.

Marcos denied Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo's allegations that the Zapatistas instigated the clash last week in San Salvador Atenco, about 15 miles northeast of Mexico City.

But he said he supports the dozens of protesters who were arrested, and he will remain in Mexico City until they are released ...

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060509/API/605091165

[noel adamson]

1. Our support of Mexican Fascism has a whole lot to do with the flood...

...of immigrants coming over our southern border for jobs that Americans can't afford to do. The five or six families that control Mexico for their own interests keep that country in poverty with plenty of help from us. A crop picker in the U.S. can only afford to live in Mexico. Working on a farm 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the U.S. will not pay enough to live in the U.S. if you want to live indoors anyway.

Here is a link to a local Zapatista site; http://www.humboldt.edu/~mc92/accionzapatista/welcome.html I couldn't find one in Mexico