Mexico Rebels, Officials to Meet Monday
Rebel and government negotiators will meet Monday at an undisclosed location in southern Mexico to try to negotiate an end to a 7-week-old uprising.
The government’s peace envoy, Manuel Camacho Solis, announced Thursday that the talks will be in the southern state of Chiapas but said he would not specify where until Sunday for security reasons.
The announcement followed Wednesday’s release by the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army of a former Chiapas governor who was kidnaped from his ranch Jan. 2, a day after the rebellion broke out.
Camacho said the talks, which could last for months, could center either on the general problems of the Mayan Indians in Chiapas or on specific agreements toward a peace treaty.
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