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| | ALERT - Vol. 1, No. 12 |
 | | Two and a half years ago, on January 1, 1994 another previously unknown group the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional or EZLN) led an armed uprising in the state of Chiapas. |
 | | A previously unknown armed group, the People's Revolutionary Army (Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo or ERP) appeared in the town of Aguas Blancas, Guerrero on January 28, 1996 at a memorial service held by 5,000 peasants to remember 18 local peasant activists murdered by the police there one year before. |
 | | Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, national leader of the Party of theDemocratic Revolution (PRD), and twice candidate for president of Mexico, who was present in Aguas Blancas at the ceremony, referred to the ERP's appearance as a "grotesque pantomime." Cardenas called the ERP's acts a "provocation" and a danger tothe community. |
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