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President Clinton recently visited Mexico. While there, he met with PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) president Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI is the political party in power. It has been in power for over 60 years and has never lost a presidential election. Is the PRI the true expression of the democratic will of the people of Mexico, or a totalitarian dictatorship? In 1968 Mexican students protested the PRI government and army. Over 300 students were murdered. On January 1st 1994, …

…n Indians in Lacandon, Chiapas. Ross reports that, “The Bishop noticed the organizational advancements made by the leftists and figured they severed the Church’s purposes which Ruiz had defined as dismantling “the structures of domination””(277). Samuel Ruiz invited the members of Politica Popular to accompany him back to Chiapas. He returned to Lacandon, with twelve men from the Politica Popular, one of them would later be known as subcomandante Marcos of the EZLN.