11. He donned Andean ponchos on his trips into the rural interior, more comfortable with Indian peasants than at cocktail parties. 12. Health care has always been a problem in Chiapas, this southern state where poor Indian peasants must often walk for days to reach the nearest hospital. 13. His parts ran the gamut from warriors to modern-day cops to drunk Indian peasants. 14. Hundreds of Indian peasant farmers demonstrated outside the headquarters of the World Trade Organization Wednesday, claiming globalization of trade was destroying their lives. 15. Leaders of the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army remain at large, however, along with rebel soldiers and thousands of Indian peasant supporters. 16. MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican government plans to redistribute land to benefit poor Indian peasant families in Chiapas and help restore calm to the southern state. 17. On the other sat eight rebels, all Indian peasants who scrape meager corn, bean and coffee crops from isolated mountainside plots. 18. Some travel all day by bus from remote villages, Indian peasants who wear no shoes and speak no Spanish. 19. Some traveled for days to reach the site where the Virgin is said to have told the Indian peasant Juan Diego to have a church built in her honor. 20. Tens of thousands fled the country, most of them Indian peasants trapped between rebels and soldiers. |