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Jose Osorio with Samir Tounsi in Mexico City

Mexico's Zapatistas Mark 30th Anniversary Of Uprising

Supporters hold a banner of Mexico's Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) at the Mayan archeological ruins of Palenque on January 3, 2005 (Credit: AFP)

Mexico's Zapatista demobilized guerrilla group prepared Sunday to mark the 30th anniversary of its pro-Indigenous, anti-capitalist uprising in an impoverished southern region where today drug traffickers are a greater foe than the military.

Supporters from Mexico and Europe headed to the state of Chiapas for two days of events in the jungle at the invitation of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

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