Melel Xojobal Synthesis 6/4/99 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source - amanecer@aa.net Sat Jun 5 05:43:21 1999 Originally published in Spanish by Melel Xojobal Translated by irlandesa Press Synthesis Friday, June 4, 1999. ********************************* HARASSMENT ********************************* Melel Xojobal. CDHFBC SAYS XI'NICH MEMBERS STILL DETAINED. Sources from the Diocese of San Cristobal reported that the two persons, who were arbitrarily detained in Palenque last Wednesday, were brought before authorities. One of them is Manuel Perez Constantino, coordinator of the X'Nich organization. They added that both men are charged with criminal association and attacks on road links, crimes for which bail may be secured, unless the judge considers the persons to be dangerous. The judge will decide within the next 72 hours whether or not to charge the detainees. ******************************** Diario de Chiapas. PRD DEMANDS END TO HARASSMENT OF DIOCESE OF SAN CRISTOBAL. The PRD's in the State Congress called for an end to the harassment and hounding of the Diocese of San Cristobal, and they criticized the recent arbitrary detention of two members of Xi'Nich and the Jesuit priest Geronimo Hernandez. The latter was released the same day as his detention. They added that these actions, carried out in complicity with groups of PRI's, are attempts to limit the religious activities and the support that the Diocese gives in the communities. ******************************** CHIAPANECO CONFLICT ******************************** La Jornada. PAYAN SAYS IN ORDER TO RENEW DIALOGUE, GOVERNMENT MUST CARRY OUT SAN ANDRES ACCORDS. PRD Senator and Cocopa member, Carlos Payan Velver, said the government should carry out the San Andres Accords, if it truly wants the EZLN to return to the dialogue table. Meanwhile, Luis H. Alvarez, PAN legislator and also a member of the Cocopa, said that the conflict has been aggravated by state government actions, such as the redistricting program and the aid to the purported zapatista deserters. Both legislators said that the new proposal the Government will be making for renewing negotiations should include the disarmament of paramilitary groups and punishment for the material and intellectual authors of the Acteal massacre. ******************************* Diario de Chiapas. GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WILL CONTINUE WORKING TO RENEW DIALOGUE. The Secretary of Government, Diodoro Carrasco, said this body will continue working to create new strategies in order to resolve the conflict in Chiapas, but that there must be political willingness on both sides. He also added that the state and federal governments are working to create stable conditions in the state. ******************************** ELECTORAL ******************************** Cuarto Poder. PRI'S FROM THE NORTH AND THE SELVA SAY THEY SUPPORT MADRAZO. PRI activists in the Selva and Northern zones of Chiapas stated that in these areas the people support the candidacy of the Governor of Tabasco, Roberto Madrazo. They also denied the statements of that party's state leader, Reynol Ozuna Henning, to the effect that the entire PRI in the state supports Labastida Ochoa's candidacy. ********************************** Cuarto Poder. CAMPESINOS DENOUNCE AUTHORITIES' FORCING THEM TO SUPPORT LABASTIDA. Campesinos from the muncipality of La Independencia denounced that members of that PRI council are traveling through the communities asking for voter credentials and support for Labastida Ochoa's candidacy. They said that those kinds of actions will never bring about peace in Chiapas. ********************************** El Universal. BARTLETT ASKS ALBORES GUILLEN FOR IMPARTIALITY IN ELECTIONS FOR PRI PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. During his visit to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Manuel Bartlett Diaz, candidate for the PRI presidential nomination, asked Governor Roberto Albores - who expressed his support a few days ago for Labastida Ochoa - to gurantee impartiality during the election process for the PRI candidate. He added that President Zedillo refused to hold the election through the classic 'cronyism,' and therefore Labastida is not the official candidate. *********************************** ACTEAL *********************************** Cuarto Poder. LAS ABEJAS ASK EVANGELICAL LEADER TO DENOUNCE THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTEAL MASSACRE. Regarding statements made over the last few days by the national leader of the Evangelical Christian Churches (Confraternice), to the effect that he knows who the authors of the Acteal massacre are, Las Abejas organization, of the muncipality of Chenalho, asked him to visit that community, in order to make the known the names of those responsible for the death of the 45 indigenous. ********************************** MUNICIPAL EVENTS ********************************** Cuarto Poder. PEACE AND JUSTICE DELEGATES ASK FOR FUNDS TO BE MANAGED BY COUNCIL. In a meeting held with officials from the Department of Government, Peace and Justice bases, in the municipality of Tila, asked that the council be the one to administer funds granted by the state government for economic programs, instead of it being done by leaders of this group. They also asked for an audit to be done of this group's leadership - identified as paramilitary - in order to clarify where the support given by the government over the last few months has been invested. ********************************** AGRARIAN ********************************** Cuarto Poder. TENSION IN LA TRINITARIA OVER LAND PROBLEMS. The municipal president of La Trinitaria, Israel Calvo Maldonado, said that Public Security forces were guarding the Chapultepec ejido, in the face of the threat of confrontations bwtween members of the OPEZ and of the CIOAC over land disputes. He added that government officials arrived there this Friday in order to try to prevent any attacks. He said that the conflict arose from OPEZ members having dislocated 10 CIOAC families from the Nuevo Chapultepec predio, and the latter having decided to recover their lands. ********************************** RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS ********************************** Cuarto Poder. CEDH ASKS FOR PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES IN COMITAN. The State Human Rights Commission called on the Secretary of Government, Rodolfo Soto Monzon, and the Government delegate in the Border region, Francisco Torres, to implement precautionary measures in the Balun Canan barrio, located in the city of Comitan, in the face of possible confrontations between Catholics and evangelicals there. ********************************* Cuarto Poder. TRADITIONAL CATHOLICS DESTROY EVANGELICAL CHURCHES IN LAS MARGARITAS. The evangelical leader of the community of El Paraiso, municipality of Las Margaritas, Darinel Santiz, denounced that more than one hundred traditional Catholics had destroyed two evangelical churches in that town. He added that seven indigenous who were opposed to the action were detained during the operation. He also said that Catholics had been attacking the evangelicals for more than a month, and threatening to expel them from the community because they were doing evangelical work. ********************************* OFFICIAL POLICIES ********************************* El Universal. UNITED STATES OFFICIAL VISITING CHIAPAS. The Secreatry of Housing of the United States, Andrew Cuomo, reported that the visit he is making to Chiapas is in order to review, along with the Secretary of Social Development and substitute governor Roberto Albores, the rebuilding efforts in several areas affected by last year's floods in the Coastal zone. Andrew Cuomo recognized the Mexican government for this program of home re-building, in effect since the emergency situation during last year's floods. *********************************************************** NUEVO AMANECER PRESS-PRENSA NUEVO AMANECER-N.A.P. 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