Vol.62/No.3           January 26, 1998 
 
 
Mexico City: 100,000 Protest Army Moves In Chiapas  
About 100,000 people demonstrated in Mexico City January 12 to protest the December 22 massacre of 45 Indian peasants by pro-government thugs in Chiapas. During the rally, news spread that police had opened fire that day on a protest in the town of Ocosingo, Chiapas, killing Guadalupe Méndez López, and that became the focus of the march. The next day 3,500 people in Ocosingo took part in a militant funeral procession for Mendéz, chanting, "Justice, justice!" Over the previous week, peasants in Chiapas rallied in one village after another to try to block the entry of Mexican troops. The banner above in the Mexico City demonstration reads, "No to the war! Silence and passivity mean complicity."  
 
 
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