LatinNews Daily Report - 05 April 2012

Mexico| López Obrador reaches out to the Zapatistas. On 4 April the presidential candidate of the left-wing Movimiento Progresista coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called on the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) to “seek reconciliation” in the upcoming 1 July presidential election. Speaking at a rally in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas (the EZLN home state), López Obrador called on the “Zapatista movement, to find a way to work together, to [achieve] reconciliation… I frankly extend my hand as a sign of respect and admiration to those that fight for justice”. López Obrador is the first presidential candidate to address the issue of Mexico’s only subversive armed group directly, even though the presidential candidates from the ruling Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Josefina Vázquez Mota, and the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Enrique Peña Nieto, also visited Chiapas this week.

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