Weekly Report - 23 December 2003

Support for the Zapatista rebels among the indigenous communities of Chiapas is fading, according to the federal government's `dialogue and negotiation' coordinator, Luis H Alvarez. He has also hinted that the agreements of San Andrés Larraí­nzar, which he helped negotiate, are not to be taken as an unchangeable blueprint for constitutional provisions on indigenous rights (which is what the Zapatistas, and many others, have been insisting upon).