IN THE VILLAGE OF THE ZAPATISTAS

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	IN THE VILLAGE OF THE ZAPATISTAS

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12-12-2008 11:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63f96950-a2f7-4839-a7e6-29ac0f00edeb/D6D29F33-3DD4-4D73-90E3-3E735028E6A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em" href="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em" style="font-size: 11px;">frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em"><H2 class="entry-title">In the Village of the Zapatistas</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/img/B764F84D-CCC3-4261-BFD2-0DD042A16AB2" alt="A mural in Oventic, a village run by Zapatistas." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em"><P>The entrance to Oventic, a village in the Chiapas highlands about an hour north of San Cristóbal de las Casas, is easy to miss. It’s a simple metal gate with nothing in particular to distinguish it. Cargo trucks and Nissan taxis roll by as they do anywhere else in the state, and in the cold fine mist of an October morning, Oventic seemed to vanish behind the gate into thick fog.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em"><SPAN class="caption">A mural in Oventic, a village run by Zapatistas.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/in-the-village-of-the-zapatistas/?em"><P>That was oddly appropriate, given that Oventic is an autonomous enclave run by the <A href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/z/zapatista_national_liberation_army/index.html">Zapatista National Liberation Army</A>, the armed, largely indigenous rebel group that for many in the <A href="http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/overview.html">United States</A> is synonymous with Chiapas. It was the Zapatista uprising on Jan. 1, 1994, that put Chiapas on the political map and drew attention to the group’s war against <A href="http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/mexico/overview.html">Mexico</A>’s government over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D6D29F33-3DD4-4D73-90E3-3E735028E6A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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