21.   The two women were members of Pacific Cultural Conservancy International, an indigenous rights group based in Hawaii.

22.   The Zapatistas are demanding greater indigenous rights as well as economic, social and political reforms in Chiapas and throughout Mexico.

23.   The Zapatistas are also perceived as one of the few groups in Mexico supporting indigenous rights.

24.   The Zapatistas are mostly Mayan Indians who took up guns to fight for indigenous rights and culture.

25.   They have rejected the indigenous rights law on grounds that it is inadequate and have labeled the Fox government a dictatorship in democratic garb.

26.   Together, they formed a kind of dream team of the indigenous rights movement.

27.   Whether to impose special land protections has become a central constitutional struggle as Mexico wrestles to craft new indigenous rights laws inspired by the Zapatistas.

28.   While the nationwide debate over indigenous rights swirls, San Miguel and other villages in Zapatista territory stubbornly plod along.

29.   Police later said the man was an representative of an indigenous rights group who had summit accreditation but no permission to be near the opening ceremony.

30.   A conference on indigenous rights opened with representatives from Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana discussing land regulation and indigenous cultural issues.