Mexican farmers aren't usually as militant as their northern counterparts, but they stepped out of character in Mexico City earlier this month. Angered by the government's refusal to curtail illegal timbering operations on their land, several thousand subsistence farmers marched on the Agricultural Secretariat. After snarling traffic for four days, the campesinos assaulted Jesus Cardena Rodriguez, the secretariat's director of forest policy, as he left the building, stripped him to his underwear and paraded him through the street for three hours. The public display won the peasants a pledge of government action.
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