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1. "Ethical foreign policy in tatters", The Guardian, 24 June 1998, p.1.

2. One of the 14 armed groups that collectively form the EPR is the PROCUP-Partido de los Pobres, founded by the legendary guerrilla Lucio Cabañas in Guerrero in the 1970s, but frequently accused, following his death, of being infiltrated and used by the PRI to assassinate Leftists.

Acknowledgement: We would like to acknowledge that much of the information and opinions in this article, particularly concerning the neoliberal plans for "corridors of development" and on the political impact of the September 1997 Caravan of 1,111 Zapatistas, derive from an unpublished interview carried out by one of the authors in December 1997 with Dr. Andrés Bareda, an Economics lecturer and researcher at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) in Mexico City, a former advisor to the EZLN in their negotiations with the Mexican government and a regular contributor to the political journal, Chiapas.

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