The threat came a week after Marcos cut off contacts with the government on
ending the peasant insurrection, which broke out New Year's Day and claimed more
than 145 lives before a Jan. 12 truce. There had been no talks since March.
Eduardo Robledo Rincon, governor-elect of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party, or PRI, is to take office Dec. 8.
While observers said the national vote for president was the cleanest in
Mexican history, local critics complained of ballot stuffing and other acts of
fraud in Chiapas.
Amado Avendano of the Democratic Revolution Party claimed victory in the
Aug. 21 governor's race and still hopes to be installed.
"If the federal army is prepared to impose Eduardo Robledo Rincon, there
will be a war, not just in Chiapas but in Mexico," Marcos said in his statement.
Marcos, in breaking off the talks Oct. 10, said the army was getting ready
for an offensive by mining approaches to rebel territory, installing
anti-aircraft batteries and increasing the number of flights over Zapatista
mountain strongholds. The military denied the charges.
Roman Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz, the main peace broker in Chiapas, said
last week that the fragile cease-fire was at grave risk. He appealed to both
sides Monday to resume their peace talks.
Most of the 1,500 rebels are Maya Indians from the canyons of southeast
Chiapas who seek full democracy and economic equality for the state's
impoverished peasants.
In June, they rejected a government peace offer that proposed more jobs,
health clinics, housing and an end to discrimination of thousands of poor Indian
peasants. The Zapatistas said the offer failed to answer central demands for
democratic reform.
opposition was cheated out of the Chiapas governorship have threatened to
renew their uprising if the governing party candidate is inaugurated.
"If they want lead, we'll give them lead," Subcommandante Marcos, head of
the Zapatista National Liberation Army, was quoted as saying in a statement
published Sunday.
The threat came a week after Marcos cut off contacts with the government on
ending the peasant insurrection, which broke out New Year's Day and claimed more
than 145 lives before a Jan. 12 truce. There had been no talks since March.
Eduardo Robledo Rincon, governor-elect of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party, or PRI, is to take office Dec. 8.
While observers said the national vote for president was the cleanest in
Mexican history, local critics complained of ballot stuffing and other acts of
fraud in Chiapas.
Amado Avendano of the Democratic Revolution Party claimed victory in the
Aug. 21 governor's race and still hopes to be installed.
"If the federal army is prepared to impose Eduardo Robledo Rincon, there
will be a war, not just in Chiapas but in Mexico," Marcos said in his statement.
Marcos, in breaking off the talks Oct. 10, said the army was getting ready
for an offensive by mining approaches to rebel territory, installing
anti-aircraft batteries and increasing the number of flights over Zapatista
mountain strongholds. The military denied the charges.
Roman Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz, the main peace broker in Chiapas, said
last week that the fragile cease-fire was at grave risk. He appealed to both
sides Monday to resume their peace talks.
Most of the 1,500 rebels are Maya Indians from the canyons of southeast
Chiapas who seek full democracy and economic equality for the state's
impoverished peasants.
In June, they rejected a government peace offer that proposed more jobs,
health clinics, housing and an end to discrimination of thousands of poor
Indian peasants. The Zapatistas said the offer failed to answer central
demands for democratic reform.
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