The Washington Post, January 12th, 1994
WHILE MEXICO is rapidly making itself a modern state, by no means all of its people are equally well equipped for that transformation. The peasant uprising in the southernmost state of Chiapas is the old story of a revolt of the most neglected and isolated. It's tempting to try to connect this revolt with great events elsewhere like the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement or with violence in other countries such as the long civil war in Guatemala across the border from Chiapas. But there's little real evidence of that. Similarly, the Mexican government's insinuations about outs...
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