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Zapapalooza

On tour with Mexico’s rebel road show

By Rick Mercier

Seven years after stunning the world with their daring uprising, a delegation of Zapatista rebels came out of hiding in the Lacandon Jungle and traveled to the concrete jungle of Mexico City to try to resolve the simmering conflict in Chiapas. Twenty-four Zapatista leaders, including the rebels’ spokesman and military strategist, Subcomandante Marcos, set out on a 12-state, 15-day road trip… return to article

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