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	Commitments: Chiapas: Peace Agreements: Library and Links: U.S. Institute of Peace
		In municipalities where the majority of the people are indigenous, the right of the indigenous people and communities will be recognized to elect their traditional municipal authorities in accordance with their practices and customs and to have juridical validity granted to their institutions and practices.
		Communities and municipalities the majority of whose population is indigenous, by the powers expressly granted to them under the law, may meet and form associations among themselves so as to undertake actions in the region which optimize efforts and resources, thus raising the capacity for administration, development and coordination of their actions as indigenous peoples.
		Municipalities with a mainly indigenous population may refuse to recognize the municipal authorities in power if the latter commits irresponsible acts which contravene the rights or practices and customs of the former, and local Congress shall endeavor to respect and support it's decision.
	www.usip.org /library/pa/chiapas/doc3.1_eng_960216.html (1751 words)

	THE CHIAPAS TODAY
		Chiapas has one of the largest and most diverse indigenous populations with approximately 959,066 indigenous language speakers over the age of five, or 27% of the state’s population.
		The history of Chiapas indigenous peoples is different from other parts of Mexico in that much of the state was a frontier, that has only recently been settled and freed from a long period of relatively lawless exploitation by diverse interests.
		The most populated regions of Chiapas are the Altos and the Centro which include the capital of San Cristobal de las Casas and Tuxla Gutierrez and the region of Soconusco, an area known for its coffee plantations.
	www.travelchiapas.com /about/about-20.php (4691 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Chiapas Conflict
		Chiapas, which political analysts say the PRI has long ruled as a fiefdom, is a different story.
		Claiming that 68 percent of the Chiapas voting population comes from flood-ravaged areas, or parts of the state where residents are subject to intimidation by armed groups, the Civic Alliance, a pro-democracy group and respected independent election watchdog, recommended postponing the balloting – a position backed by many independent observers.
		Be that as it may, Chiapas continues to rank at or near the bottom of almost every human development category in comparison with other Mexican states –; particularly those in the north.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/chiapas/chiapas.htm (1168 words)

	Green Left - Government prepares further attacks on Zapatista municipalities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Chiapas Governor Roberto Albores said authorities would apply the law in these areas, and no-one should be surprised by it.
		The federal government's representative in Chiapas, Emilio Rabasa, claimed that the autonomous municipalities are the greatest threat to democracy in Mexico.
		This is a breathtaking statement considering the existence of right-wing paramilitary gangs in Chiapas which act with near total impunity; the widespread practice of torture and the phenomenon of the ``disappeared''; electoral fraud; rampant corruption at all levels of government; and the almost complete absence of the most elementary trade union rights.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1998/318/21237 (844 words)

	CIEPAC: Chiapas al Día, No. 216
		Of the 188 municipalities in Chiapas, foreign firms are located in only 6 of them: 12 in the municipality of Tapachila, 6 in the capital Tuxtla Gutiérrez, one in Comitán, one in Chiapa de Corzo, one in Ocosingo and one in Pijijiapan.
		Chiapas occupies last place (32 of 32 states) in the country for FDI from member countries of the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC), with a total of 8 firms (7 from the United States and one from Canada).
		Chiapas occupied 14th place amongst the states in terms of investment in these sectors, holding 0.3% of the total investment, or 585.2 thousand dollars.
	www.ciepac.org /archivo/bulletins/ingles/ing216.htm (3132 words)

	Peace Action Delegation to Chiapas
		The attacks in the municipality of Chenalhó culminated in a bloody massacre in December 1997, when 45 unarmed men, women, and children in the village of Actéal were killed by a government-backed paramilitary group ironically called "Paz y Justicia" ("Peace and Justice").
		Chiapas has two important ports, which are connected with a two-lane highway, and one is connected to a major port in Oaxaca.
		The municipal president assured them that they could all come in to harvest their fields except for two "provocateurs." They were also told they would need to request permission to come back again.
	www.fas.org /asmp/library/reports/Chiapas.html (10331 words)

	WOLA Background Paper for Congressional Hearing on Chiapas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		As you are preparing for the June 29 subcommittee hearing on the conflict in Chiapas, Mexico, I wanted to bring to your attention a number of issues that may help place the conflict in a broader context, and highlight significant implications for United States policy.
		With Chiapas representing potentially significant risks for the United States, it is important for the U.S. to systematically monitor the human rights problems in southern Mexico, urge the government of Mexico to take steps to reduce tensions, and pursue a negotiated solution to the armed conflict and underlying grievances.
		The Zapatistas' push for autonomous municipalities is, in part, a reflection of the loss of public confidence in rural Mexico in the established electoral process dominated by the ruling party for nearly 70 years.
	www.zmag.org /Bulletins/pcontext.htm (3762 words)

	Zapatista autonomous municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The war and the militarization prevent the people, in many cases, from going to the municipal seats in order to resolve their immediate problems; the soldiers at the checkpoints assault and interrogate every person suspected of being a zapatista: that is, all poor campesinos.
		The legitimacy of the autonomous municipalities is based in the Treaty 169 of the International Labor Organization (ILO), to which Mexico is a signatory, and which recognizes the rights of the indigenous peoples to live according to their uses and customs.
		The police, military and immigration operations against the autonomous municipalities have been accompanied by flagrant human rights violations, against the people and the towns, leaving terrible consequences, which speak to the war which has been unleashed in Chiapas against the indigenous poor: deaths, imprisonments, thefts, lootings, rapes, destruction of harvests, displacement of populations.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/comment/auto_munc_nov98.html (2196 words)

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		In terms of international visitors, Chiapas received 336,240 foreign guests in 1993, which is only 27.6 % of the total number of 1,217,944 tourists counted by INEGI.
		France, the U.S. and Germany were the main sources of international tourism for Chiapas (all data from INEGI 1994 and Orozco 1994, 111-112).
		Generally speaking, the climate of Chiapas is tropical, humid and sub-humid.
	www.lycos.com /info/chiapas--san-cristbal.html (568 words)

	Facts About Chiapas
		Remittances sent to Chiapas from migrants in the United States were calculated to be $500 million in 2004, an amount equivalent to "all of the corn harvested - the principal generator of wealth in the state - in addition to the production of beans, bananas, and mangoes."
		Forced displacement is a decades-long phenomenon in Chiapas caused by a variety of factors, including religious intolerance and agrarian conflicts.
		The unregulated dissemination of transgenics has been detected repeatedly in Chiapas, primarily in the municipalities of Las Margaritas, Ocosingo, Palenque, and Playas de Catazajá, that is, the Lacandon Jungle and surrounding areas.
	www.sipaz.org /data/chis_en_03.htm (1444 words)

	Human Rights Activists Protest Increasing Paramilitary Violence in Chiapas - Printer Friendly
		The Fundation France Libertés, meanwhile, which is headed by Danielle Mitterand, expressed this week, to the same Ambassador Heller, their "concern in the face of the intensification of confrontations, threats and assassinations in the indigenous communities of Chiapas during this month of August," and they asked him to convey that concern to the Mexican government.
		The foundation asked the Mexican government to "put all necessary measures in place for an end to this climate of violence and impunity, to establish the entire truth concerning these incidents, and to see that those responsible are held accountable for their acts before a tribunal."
		The Brazilian organization Avante Zapatista expressed their "indignation" to President Fox for the "constant persecutions of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas." The scenario under which the incidents took place, the Sao Paulo organization said, "makes us think that your government is in complicity with paramilitary groups (...) protected by the silence of government agencies.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/chiapas/315.html.pf (736 words)

	Country Report - Mexico 1998 - Chapter 7b
		Of the 111 municipalities in the State, fifty-eight are predominantly indigenous or have significant indigenous populations, and of those fifty-eight, opposition parties lead twenty-five.
		In mid-1997, the level of social and political violence increased in Chiapas, a development that was attributed(152) to the many conflicts that existed and to impasse in the so-called "San Andrés Dialogue" between representatives of the State, the Zapatista movement and other civic groups.
		Northern Chiapas refers to an area that consists mainly of the municipalities of Tila, Sabanilla, Tumbalá and the Tila lowlands along the border with the state of Oaxaca.
	www.cidh.org /countryrep/Mexico98en/Chapter-7b.htm (3841 words)

	A Commune in Chiapas
		Throughout 1994-95 though, the Indians of eastern Chiapas were seizing more and more land (over 1,500 properties representing more than 90,000 hectares were taken in the period up to June 1995), evicting landowners and organising their new villages into autonomous municipalities.
		This is partly because the measures needed to achieve this would result in eastern Chiapas becoming a charnel house, and the PRI has been unwilling to court that sort of international attention.
		Municipally, delegates from each village come together in the assembly halls that are almost as common as churches.
	www.chanfles.com /chiapas.htm (15837 words)

	CMI * Chiapas * IMC - noticias, 1 página(s)
		The independent municipality First of January indicates that from the last week the military population in the quarter of Toniná, seat of the 31 Military Zone, has been increased considerably.
		The independent municipality Olga Isabel, located in the area of Chilón, also reports daily military patrollings and a constant and aggressive activity of the detachments of the SPE between Bachajón, Chilón and other communities.
		Finally, the authorities of the independent municipality Miguel Hidalgo reported the passage of 69 loaded trucks of the federal Army of troops in the direction of Comitán, " which demonstrates that the Army does not think to leave Chiapas ", according to the natives.
	chiapas.indymedia.org /display.php3?article_id=100712 (2419 words)

	Chiapas - Qwika
		Himno a Chiapas Himno a Chiapas (Spanish: Anthem to Chiapas) is the name of the anthem of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
		Municipalities of Chiapas The Mexican state of Chiapas is divided into 118 municipalities (municipios): Municipality...
		Municipalities of Chiapas Municipalities of Chiapas and principal cities of each municipality Acacoyagua...
	www.qwika.com /find/Chiapas?int=10 (492 words)

	A Commune in Chiapas? Mexico and the Zapatista Rebellion \| libcom.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Revolution barely reached Chiapas, and the latifundias were never broken up, although an echo can be heard in the contemporaneous slave revolts in the logging camps of the Lacandon.[13] Similarly the Cardenas reforms had little effect in the 1930s.
		With this mish-mash of Leninist activity, it is difficult to discover the autonomous content of the struggle against eviction from the Lacandon.[16]To muddy the water still further, it is plain that the vanguardists and the liberation theologists were not in competition for the hearts and minds of the campesinos, as some have suggested.
		In Chiapas, the PRI have also lost their hold on the governorship, and there is a new PRD governor.
	libcom.org /library/commune-chiapas-zapatista-mexico (20224 words)

	Chiapas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect on January 1, 1994, the indigenous peoples of Chiapas - struggling to make a living with few resources - felt increasingly left behind.
		Since then, the armed EZLN has been lying low to some extent working on the government level to implement health care and educational institutions in poor rural indigenous communities that had until then been ignored and discriminated against by the central government.
		Chiapas · Chihuahua · Coahuila · Colima · Durango · Guanajuato · Guerrero · Hidalgo · Jalisco · México · Michoacán · Morelos · Nayarit · Nuevo León · Oaxaca · Puebla · Querétaro · Quintana Roo · San Luis Potosí · Sinaloa · Sonora · Tabasco · Tamaulipas · Tlaxcala · Veracruz · Yucatán · Zacatecas
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiapas (1580 words)

	CIEPAC: Chiapas al Día, No. 185
		On the 17th, the paramilitary groups savagely attacked the town of Majomut in Chenalho municipality, where the Zapatistas were informing their supporters about the march.
		The indigenous people spoke loudly and clearly during the inauguration of the ¨Ernesto Che Guevara¨ Rebel Municipality, located in the Rebel Region of ¨Tzotz Choj¨ in the municipality of Ocosingo: ¨We are and want to be a part of Mexico and not strangers in the land in which we were born.
		On May 1 the municipality known as Earth and Freedom (Tierra y Libertad), headquartered in Amparo Agua Tinta, in the Constitutional Municipality of Las Margaritas, was vacated in a joint police-military takeover.
	www.ciepac.org /archivo/bulletins/ingles/ing108.htm (2157 words)

	EZLN, July 19, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Over these last few months, the indigenous zapatista peoples and rebels organized in the EZLN have prepared a series of changes, which have to do with their internal functioning and their relationship with national and international civil society, and they are ready to make them public.
		CG of the EZLN and of the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities.
		By the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities of Chiapas.
	www.laneta.apc.org /sclc/ezln/030719en.htm (593 words)

	Human Rights Activists Protest Increasing Paramilitary Violence in Chiapas
		They also announced that they would be sending a group of observers to Chiapas, in order to help "de-escalate" the situation and to bear witness to the brutality which is being practiced against the indigenous.
		Fox's Mexican ambassadors are just beginning to get a taste of what it means to represent Mexico in Paris, Madrid, Washington, Rome, Barcelona, Brazil and other cities, at the very moment that the rebel indigenous in Chiapas are being suppressed, who, as the entire world knows, are continuing to wait.
		I know the situation of the indigenous in Chiapas because I did my doctorate on this subject.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/mexico/chiapas/315.html (745 words)

	ACTION ALERT
		This also evolved in an attempt to "re-organize" the municipalities in Chiapas, pushed by the state government and the "peace coordinator" Rabasa and the Interior Minister Labastida.
		The total effect of this strategy is to deny food, and shelter to members of the EZLN as well as keep any neutral or sympathizers under threat of persecution and death in order to destroy their base of support.
		It is imperative that civil society be clear that the people of Chiapas are on the brink of what will surely prove to be one of the bloodiest wars in recent history.
	members.tripod.com /~nacomr/alert.html (996 words)

	Workers World May 21, 1998: Eyewitness report from Chiapas, Mexico
		Hackwell is a photo-journalist who participated in an emergency Pastors for Peace caravan from the United States to Chiapas, Mexico, in early May. The delegation delivered 32 tons of humanitarian aid to eight Indigenous communities and the San Carlos Hospital in Altamirano.
		While Chiapas is the poorest state in Mexico, it is the richest in untapped resources.
		The war in Chiapas has slipped from the headlines, but this should not be taken as a sign that the struggle is over.
	www.workers.org /ww/1998/chiapas0521.php (1709 words)

	Qwika - similar:Chiapas
		The Mexican state of Chiapas is divided into 118 municipalities (municipios): MunicipalityMunicipal Seat 001 Acacoyagua Acacoyagua 002 Acala Acala 003 Acapetahua Acapetahua 004 Aldama Aldama 005 Altamirano Altamirano 006 Amatán Amatán 007 Amatenango de la Frontera Amatenango de la Frontera 008 Amatenango del Valle Amatenango del Vall...
		According to the 1917 Constitution, executive power in each of those states is deposited in a governor, who is elected for a six-year term by direct,...
		Tapachula is a city in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
	www.qwika.com /rels/Chiapas (1361 words)

	Carlos Efraín Peréz Rojas Interview - Native Networks
		But it was in Chiapas that I got involved in video one-hundred percent, and this was a result of the resisting autonomous municipalities policy [of including the use of media].
		And they did it because, at that time, the communities in that municipality were discussing how important it was for women to get organized-women were starting to organize to work in the orchard, the corn field, the bean garden.
		I participated in videos that were made in Chiapas and when the commanders spoke with the person in charge of making the video, who would be someone from the community, they'd tell him 'Do it, but make sure we look real tough, make sure we look strong.
	www.nativenetworks.si.edu /eng/rose/efrain_c_interview.htm (1999 words)

	Guatemala Update: Oventic, Chiapas, Mexico
		This persistent people of the Mexican Southeast are the great-Mayan-grandchildren who were so saturated with oppression and poverty that they said "enough is enough" to the Mexican government.
		In the wee morning hours of January 1st, 1994 armed women and men of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) took temporary control of five head municipalities of Chiapas, Mexico (more information: zapatista timeline and zapatista rebellion).
		In this way their collective vision is expressed proudly and deliberately with their desire to create "one world in which many worlds are possible." Their firm stance is not to rise up and take political power, but to allow for diverse voices to be seen as legitimate and important.
	www.mediamouse.org /guatemala/oventic_chiapas_mexico.php (977 words)

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