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Bishop struggles to mediate Chiapas year-long uprising
- The Associated Press
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico — As opponents demand his removal, Bishop Samuel Ruiz struggles to hold together an increasingly polarized Chiapas state and mediate a year-long Indian uprising.
The job is getting tougher by the day. The 70-year-old diabetic monsignor faces protests by dissenters who want him to resign and pressure from Mexico City to quit his role as mediator.
The toll shows on his ashen face and the unusual silences at rare public appearances.
At the brightly painted 16th-century Roman Catholic cathedral, parishioners stacked blankets and firewood in front of the diocese doors yesterday, after a riot Sunday left four people injured.
About 500 ranchers and businessmen from the San Cristobal Civic Front, accusing the bishop of supporting the Zapatista rebels, hurled eggs, rocks and sticks at the cathedral. Some demonstrators carried signs depicting Ruiz as a devil. In Las Margarita, about 100 miles south, graffiti called for his death.
The demonstrators were gone yesterday, but parishioners still maintained their vigil outside the diocese.
"The bishop is a great person who has always defended us," said Santana Jerasto Martinez Gonzalez of Ruiz, who has been the Roman Catholic bishop of San Cristobal for
more than three decades.
"We are here to support Don Samuel and protect him from the ranchers," said the 39-year-old Indian peasant, among some 100 people who spent the night outside the cathedral, huddled under blankets around a bonfire.
But many here feel otherwise.
"The people with money are against the bishop because they are afraid of the effect on their economic interests," said Abelardo Sanchez Bermudez, 21, as he helped to form a human chain around the church. "He wakes up the poor people."
"The clergy, managed by Samuel Ruiz ... totally changed the sense of the gospel. They hammered into the head of the indigenous hatred of the Ladinos," said Mario Flores Quiroz, a leader of the Civic Front. Ladinos, of European-Indian descent, control most of the money and power in the country.
Ranchers blame Ruiz's liberation theology for the Jan. 1, 1994, uprising by the Zapatista National Liberation Army, which demanded political and social reform for impoverished Indians. At least 145 people died in 12 days of fighting and rebels and peasants have taken over 2,000 private properties.
Liberation theology interprets the Holy Scriptures in light of the poor.
It has spurred rebel movements throughout Latin America in the last 20 years, although the Vatican now opposes it.
"Liberation theology is fomenting hatred and a struggle between classes," Beltran said. "It justifies armed struggle to recuperate property ... This is not right. What guilt do I have for what my grandparents did?"
But Ruiz has stayed firm. "I've never heard of a theology of slavery," he once said. Ruiz has received letters and at least one call from the Vatican, asking him to tone down his involvement.
The Mexican Conference of Bishops last week came out in support of Ruiz's pastoral work, but many bishops are uncomfortable with his social activism.
"The matter of the bishop has been very polemical. Evidently it affects the church and it compromises the image of the Church," said Abelardo Alvarado Alcantara, president of the Bishops' Commission for Social Communication.
Meanwhile, President Ernesto Zedillo is attempting to hand over Ruiz's National Mediation Commission to a multiparty government commission.
The commission was recognized in December by both the government and the Zapatistas. But now, rebel leaders who trusted Ruiz are on the run, as the army advances into their territory with an arrest warrant for rebel representative, Subcommandante Marcos.
NAACP to rejoin civil rights debate
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—With a new leader in charge and its infighting abated, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said it would rejoin the civil rights debate with a campaign against Republican efforts to curb social programs and other civil rights gains.
"There seems to be an attempt to roll back the gains that we have made. I'm referring to a number of things, but particularly to affirmative action," she said on NBC's "Today" show.
"I am frightened; we are frightened by what we see happening with this 104th Congress," Myrlie Evers-Williams, newly elected chairwoman of the NAACP's board of directors, said yesterday.
Evers-Williams said Sunday that she intended to take on the attitudes and positions in the new Republican Congress that could harm civil rights advances made in the past three decades.
"Our voice will increasingly become loud, as it has before," she said yesterday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "This is a new time, a fresh start."
The NAACP will gather in Washington this week to support Surgeon General nominee Henry Foster and the "motor voter" registration law. They will also protest proposed rollbacks of affirmative action, welfare and other social services.
It is important to get the NAACP back into the fray, Evers-Williams said. In addition to protesting some policies on Capitol Hill, she hopes to
meet with House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders.
"There will be no effort to close out anyone, including our friend-foe Newt," Evers-Williams said. "It's going to be important to reach out to everyone, and let them know what we're talking about."
Evers-Williams is the widow of Medgar Evers, the NAACP field organizer who was slain in Jackson, Miss., in 1963.
She plans to create a newsletter to let the rank and file know what's going on. There will be appeals to corporations to donate to NAACP programs — and reports to the 2,200 local branches that will run them.
The operating theme, she said, is to remember the revolt that prompted the NAACP board of directors to elect her Saturday as its new leader.
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