Mexico Deports US Teacher from Oventic 


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     July 25, 1998
     Filed at 8:52 p.m. EDT
      
     U.S. Teacher Deported From Mexico
     By The Associated Press
      
     SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -- Immigration authorities
     on Saturday deported a California teacher who was helping to build
     a school in a Mexican village sympathetic to leftist rebels.
     
     Peter Brown, a San Diego elementary school teacher, left Mexico
     City's international airport on Saturday, said Salvador Tinajero, a
     lawyer with the independent Mexican Commission for Human Rights.
     
     Brown had led the effort to build a technical junior high school in
     Oventic, a highlands rebel center 15 miles north of San Cristobal
     de las Casas. He has raised more than $60,000 for the project.
     
     For more than a year, Brown has been leading groups of U.S. and
     Mexican supporters to Oventic for weeks at a time to mix cement and
     set bricks.
     
     A statement from the Interior Secretariat said the government did
     not authorize the school.
     
     In recent months, the government has waged a campaign against
     foreign involvement in the political unrest that has following a
     brief rebellion 4 1/2 years ago by the Zapatista National
     Liberation Army. More than 150 foreigners have been expelled this
     year for alleged political activity.


     Copyright 1998 by The Associated Press.
 
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