PAULITICS & PERSPECTIVES TEACAPAN, SINALOA, » MEXICO — Do not believe everything you read about the Mexican rebellion. That includes this column. H means little that this is written within Mexico. The towns in Chiapas where the fighting is occurring are as distant [rom here as is Salt Lake City. There is even a similar language barrier — the rebels are apparently Mayans whose language is not Spanish. In this village, less than a thou- “sand miles south of the American border, the Chiapas rebellion seems almost too far away 10 arouse much -dnterest or belief. "There are only three dozen daily * Mazatlan newspapers delivered in ‘this community and they, like most of the Mexican press, «will be carry- ing tong, turgid’ official statements. _In the changed political climate here, there will also be turgid state- ments from the left wing and right wing opposition parties of Mexico. ‘ However, the Mexican press can “not be depended upon to send ils / wn reporters to the scene where they. will describe what they sec happening instead of what people say ts happening. The Americans, and perhaps a Canadian paper or twos may send a reporter or two to describe what they see. They are worth reading. But most of the gringo press will carry opinion pieces, wrilten by colun- nists and editorial writers whose lucubrations are unimpeded by any first-hand information, Don't believe much of their comments cither, wait a year ar two. Asa guide to the thoughtful newspaper reader, te folowing is a chart that might prove helpful. How many dead? We will never know, just as nohody can be sure how niany were killed in the Guerero State uprising in the early: ‘TOs or how many riot- ing university students were yunned down at Luis Echeverria’s order in Mexico City on the eve of the Olympics. The current estimate is 80 peo- ple in Chiapas. To keep a sense of proportion, 80 people ts less than half the number murdered each year in the medium-sized city of Phoenix, Arizona, where the Canadian snowbirds come to spead their placid retirement years, Who sponsored the rebels? We won't know this fora long time, if ever, any more than we will know the complete truth of allega- tions that the Guerero Stale upris- ing was sponsored by the Dirty Tricks boys of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who suspected that Lenin was alive and well and living as a house guest of the Mexican president. Strange things happen in Mexico. Why the Mayans? 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However it threatens them, Most live on miifpa, which is a tiny lot of land on which they grow corn, Mexicans sing batlads about their fittle aiilpas, They fought a revola- Hion to get them. “Lind and Liberty” was the slogan, Under NAFPA Me‘sico plans to start importing corn from the U.S. or Canada, where we grow betler corn ched wper, [is a savage blow to the lite farmers. NAFTA supporters will only point out that this is the country CINEMA 1° REMAINS OF THE DAY Nightly 7: “0pm: SalSun 2:450m MY LIFE Nightly 9: Soar, SaVSun 5 ‘00 pm Mature NEW GARI Friday, January 14, 1994 - North Shore News - 9 exican mystery: a fight that is far away (had gave corn to the world, That Mexico fell into a position of being unable to compete in corm production says miteh about what protectionisar does for industries. No ong should doubt that the Mayitns are suffering, Mary Mexicans are. President Salinas, “Baldy” the people call Lim, anticipated NAPPA by kicking dowa lar watts behind which his countrymen had sheltered for generations, This has had drastic effect on the whole country for several yours. In 1993, taore Mexican compas nies were failing than new ones were being created. It has been a shocking experience forall, compa: | rable with that occurring i Russia and Western Europe except that despite (he current uprising, there is more stability here than in the old Russian Enipire. = _ CINEMA 2 JURASSIC PARK : Nightly 7:05pm; Sat/Sun. 2:30pm Mature A PERFECT WORLD ~ Nightly 9:40pm Sat/Sun. 4.50pm Those rich landowners News reports say that in Chiapas atew wealthy families control most of the farmland, Ysa, the sitaation is litle different Crom the corporate control of farmlands in California, Arizona and Texas, Even on the Canadian prairies, fewer and fewer people control inere and more find and small firmers ure ploughed under, Superfarms may be bad. 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