Melel New Synthesis: 4/28 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Originally published in Spanish by Melel Xojobal ________________________ Translated by irlandesa Press Synthesis Wednesday, April 28, 1999 *********************************** COUNTERINSURGENCY *********************************** Diario de Yucatan. GOVERNMENT WILL REWARD ZAPATISTAS WHO TURN IN WEAPONS. The State Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock, Librado de la Torre Gonzalez, announced that tractors, seeds and cash would be given to EZLN militants who voluntarily lay down their weapons. He explained that the state government had begun an assistance program for rural activities, and he invited EZLN militants to do the same as their purported companeros who had turned in their weapons, since the government would award them with agricultural machinery, credits, advisement for their economic programs, poultry, cattle and other kinds of animals, so that they might improve their standard of living. ********************************* MILITARIZATION ********************************* Cuarto Poder. INCREASE IN HARASSMENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES IN TILA. Federal PRD Deputy, Manuel Perez Garcia, denounced that the federal army has increased its operations in the pro-zapatista communities of the municipality of Tila, under the pretext of the purported theft of a weapon. Perez Garcia said that, despite the continuous denunciations that have been made to the Congress of the Union and human rights bodies, the harassment campaign against zapatista bases has increased. ********************************** Cuarto Poder. LACANDONS ASK FOR WITHDRAWAL OF POLICE FORCES. Lacandon indigenous from Frontera Corozal, Crucero Corozal and Nueva Palestina called for the withdrawal from the region of the detachments of Public Security Police, Federal Army and the Federal Judicial Police. They said that these forces are only harassing the population, as well as looting wood and animals. ********************************* ACTEAL ********************************* Cuarto Poder. PROTECTION REQUESTED FOR FORMER COMMANDER IMPLICATED IN ACTEAL. Relatives of former Public Security Commander, Felipe Vazquez Espinosa - who was sentenced to three years for his involvement in Acteal - requested a protection order in response to the possibility that the accused might be sent to another penal center, and in reponse to the rumor that he might be assassinated. The Director General of the CERESOS [prisons] denied that there was any truth to these statements. ********************************* ELECTORAL ********************************* La Jornada. THE END OF GOVERNANCE SHOULD BE DECLARED IN CHIAPAS. Mexican political analyst, Rolando Cordera, said that the federal government should declare the end of governance in Chiapas, because, since the governor who was elected in 1994 left, the position has been held by interims or substitutes. He also said the chiapaneco conflict will be resolved when the San Andres Accords are carried out, although he clarified that it was not necessary to take up the proposal drawn up by the Cocopa again, but the accords themselves could be sent to the Congress of the Union in order to create a new proposal. ********************************* Diario de Chiapas. DISMISSAL OF PANTELHO MAYOR REQUESTED. Various groups in the municipality of Pantelho called for the dismissal of PRI Mayor Sebastian Diaz Santiz, who is accused of having ties with a group of armed persons who attacked Ejidal Commissioner, Vicente Santiz. They added that they decided in assembly to demand his dismissal for the crimes of acts of vandalism, absenteeism of the president and authoritarianism. ******************************** REDISTRICTING ******************************** Sin Linea. CASTANON LEON ACCUSED OF TRYING TO CREATE NEW MUNICIPALITIES WITH ONLY PRI's. A group of detainees from the dismantling of the Tierra y Libertad Autonomous Municipality, located in Las Margaritas, expressed their rejection of the redistricting proposal presented by substitute governor Roberto Albores Guillen. They also accused the President of the State Redistricting Commission, Noe Castanon Leon, of trying to create municipalities with only communities that belong to the PRI. They added that this process is excluding EZLN sympathizer and support base communities, and they are not respecting the San Andres Accords. ********************************* PARAMILITARIZATION ********************************* Cuarto Poder. ASSERTION THAT THERE ARE NO PARAMILITARY GROUPS IN CHIAPAS, ONLY ARMED GROUPS. The Assistant Secretary for Public Security, Sabino Aguilar Ramirez, recognized that there has been an alarming increase in Chiapas of groups who have been armed out of various circumstances, although he stated that there are no paramilitary groups. He added that the armed conflict and the emergence of the EZLN has increased the wave of violence and attacks. ****************************** Diario de Yucatan. COCOPA WILL ASK MADRAZO CUELLAR FOR INFORMATION ON PARAMILITARIES. The Acting President of the Cocopa, Gilberto Lopez y Rivas, announced that he would be meeting this Friday with the Attorney General of the Republic, and he would ask for information on the progress being made in the investigations into armed groups operating in Chiapas. ****************************** DISPLACEMENTS ****************************** Cuarto Poder. DISPLACED FROM BUSILJA WILL MEET WITH AUTHORITIES IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO RETURN TO THEIR COMMUNITY. The Coordinator of the Popular Council of Human Rights (CPDH), David Ramos Hernandez, reported that displaced from the community of Busilja, municipality of Ocosingo - who belong to the Xi'Nich organization and who are EZLN sympathizers - will be meeting with state officials in order to try to work out agreements and to be able to return to their place of origin. He added that official and non-governmental human rights organizations would be participating in the meeting, as well as the PRI group that expelled them on June 13, 1997. He also said that the displaced would be attempting a new return next Wednesday. ****************************** HUMAN RIGHTS ****************************** Diario de Chiapas. APPOINTEE FOR NEW PRESIDENT OF CEDH REJECTED. Local PAN deputies expressed their opposition to the naming of Luis Felipe Cancino Gonzalez as new president of the State Human Rights Commission in Chiapas. They added that Cancino Gonzalez lacks the moral authority to hold this position, noting that he had participated in the Ruiz Ferro government and in the actions that the former governor carried out against the population. ******************************* COMMUNITY CONFLICTS ******************************* Cuarto Poder. PRI's FROM NICOLAS RUIZ DEMAND POLITICAL JUDGMENT AGAINST MAYOR. PRI comuneros from the municipality of Nicolas Ruiz announced they would be lodging a demand for political judgment against municipal president, Braulio Lopez Moreno, whom they accuse of being biased and only favoring PRD's there. They added that the climate of tension in the municipality has worsened, because, they stated, the PRD's have begun working the plots of land that belong to the PRI's. ******************************* OPERATIONS ****************************** Diario de Yucatan. WEAPONS DECOMMISSION IN VILLAFLORES. The State Attorney General's Office (PGJE) reported that it has decommissioned 23 high and low powered weapons for the exclusive use of the federal army, in two operations in which four alleged criminals were detained. They added that initial investigations indicate that it is a dangerous gang of assailants and kidnappers, who even had their eyes on two chiapaneco businesspersons. ***************************** NATIONAL EVENTS ***************************** Diario de Yucatan. DEATH OF SALGADO MACEDONIA COLLABORATOR CALLED ACCIDENTAL. Federal Highway Police and the Office of the Assistant Prosecutor of Iguala, Guerrero, reported that the highway accident in which the bodyguard of Felix Salgado Macedonio - former PRD candidate for governor in that state - was killed, was owing to excessive speed and to the impact of the vehicle with the remains of a cow. Officials from both bodies reported that they found that the accident victims were carrying a plastic bag in the vehicle with six rifle cartridges, and they were travelling with a first degree level of alcohol intoxication. They also discovered that the vehicle involved in the accident had been reported as stolen. ___________________________________________________ NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-N.A.P.To know about us visit: http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm (spanish) ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytcamer-05.12.99-01:13:14-6635