... than 50 percent by changing from a fixed to a freely floating exchange rate. A potentially beneficial economic development was the discovery in 1974 and 1975 of huge crude-petroleum deposits in Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Veracruz states. Oil production more than doubled during the latter half of the 1970s. By the mid-1980s a rapid increase in foreign debt, coupled with falling oil prices ... a group of Native Americans called the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) captured four towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and demanded reforms from the Salinas government for...

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... political affairs. The EZLN is established among the indigenous people who live in and around the jungle in Lacondona, east of the high plains of Chiapas. Chiapas is a very poor area. 41% of the population has no running water. 34.9% don't have electricity. 63% of the people live in ... industrialized, while in the south, it has been left a wilderness. The EZLN fears that NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement will keep Chiapas more isolated and inderdeveloped. The Zapatista area has around 32 rebel groups who refuse to acknowledge the Mexican or local government. They send ... repres...

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... today, although resistance is forming against it among both peasants and some of the elite. The legacy of the Revolution was never more clearly evident than in the present-day rebellion in Chiapas. The revolutionaries of today style themselves after the leaders of the 1910 Revolution. The name of the army is the Emiliano Zapata National Liberation (EZLN), commonly known as zapatistass ... , named for the legendary general who fought for land reform in 1910. The rebellion in Chiapas reflects long-standing social divides that still plague the country, especially among the indigenous people...

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... state and nation levels. Once declaring war, the 1500 indignous rebels took over almost all of the towns in the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas. They were able to do this with little opposition and even took over the state's biggest tourist attraction San Cristobal de las Casas. ... to help the Zapatistas, the leaders of the Mexican government are racist towards the Indians. President Fox repeatly refused reforms for the people of Chiapas. The majority of white Spanish Mexicans are racist towards the chiapans. In years past the natives coulden't even walk the streets without being h...

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