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| | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY: New Universities for a Multicultural Mexico |
 | | One is the new intercultural university in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas, where the Zapatista guerrillas staged an uprising in January 1994. |
 | | She announced that intercultural universities are to open next year in the states of Chihuahua, Guerrero, Puebla and Quintana Roo, in addition to the seven already operating in the states of Chiapas, México, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Veracruz, Sonora and Michoacán, which are economically depressed regions with high proportions of indigenous people. |
 | | One of the central aims of the new universities is to foment respect for indigenous people and their cultures and fight the discrimination and racism that they have faced for centuries, said Schmelkes. |
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