Weekly Report - 01 June 2017 (WR-17-21)

The insurgent Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) has embraced electoral politics for the first time more than two decades after rising up in rebellion against the Mexican state. On 30 May the EZLN and the Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI) elected an independent candidate for the 2018 presidential contest: María de Jesús Patricio, known as Marichuy, a traditional doctor from the Nahua indigenous group.


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