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Weekly Report - 07 January 2016 (WR-16-01)

MEXICO: Indigenous plight takes centre stage

Mexico’s poor and marginalised indigenous will shortly be thrust into the spotlight. Not because the insurgent Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) is marking the 22nd anniversary of the launch of its armed uprising in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas. But because Pope Francis has elected to visit San Cristóbal de las Casas, a bastion of support for the EZLN, as part of a six-day visit to Mexico from 12 to 17 February. Awkwardly the government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto has still failed to deliver on a promise made two years ago to incorporate the San Andrés Accords reached between the Mexican government and the EZLN in 1996, which granted autonomy, recognition and rights to the country’s indigenous communities, into a major piece of legislation harmonising the constitution with international treaties on indigenous issues.

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