The war of words between the government of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon and Chiapas rebels ended last week, and real warfare resumed. In Nuevo Momon, a village in the southern state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, sniper fire rained down on a force of Mexican soldiers, killing two of them. Near the town of Cacalomacan, about 50 miles west of Mexico City, 250 police and soldiers surrounded a group of militants and flushed them out of a farmhouse after a two-hour gun battle. In other strongholds of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, or E.Z.L.N., hundreds of heavily armed...
UNMASKING MARCOS
ZEDILLO MAKES A PRE-EMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST THE ZAPATISTA REBELS AND PUTS THEIR LEADERSHIP ON THE RUN
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