A fresh start for Chiapas
After Vicente Fox’s historic presidential victory, an election for governor of Chiapas could bring new hope to Mexico’s most troubled state
SCRAPE away the paint on the walls of the colourful houses in the colonial town of San Cristobal, in the heart of the south-eastern Mexican state of Chiapas, and another colour appears, then another, in layer after layer. So, too, goes the politics in Chiapas: a chaotic fresco of conflicts—religious, political, ethnic, economic and agrarian—plastered one on top of another, each hiding the ones beneath.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A fresh start for Chiapas”
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