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Long Walk Home for Displaced Mexican Indians
About 333 Tzotzil peasants, driven from their villages by paramilitary violence linked to the Zapatista conflict, begin a six hour pilgrimage back toward Yaxemel and Puebla. They are buoyed by Fox government promises to curb paramilitary action and protect Indian rights, though regional clashes persist.
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X’oyep
Mexico
Tzotzil
Vicente Fox
Zapatista
Miguel Gomez Guzman
Yaxemel
Yash-A-Mel
Puebla
Salazar
Fox
National Action Party
Democratic Revolution Party
Congress
Zapatistas
Subcomandante Marcos