81. Indian businesswoman Xochitl Galvez will head a commission on Indian rights and Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, a former rival presidential candidate, will direct a commission on discrimination. 82. Indian animal rights activists are struggling to block the ritual torture and killing of dozens of red foxes in two southern Indian villages. 83. Indian rights activists said the government had betrayed the tribes it pledged to defend. 84. It announced Sunday it will seek congressional approval for its version of a previously-negotiated Indian rights accord. 85. It weakened Fox by helping rewrite his first proposal to Congress, an Indian rights bill meant to end the Zapatista revolt. 86. Leaving behind their guns, but not their masks, Zapatista rebels were being welcomed at the main podium of Congress to argue for an Indian rights bill. 87. Marcos delivered a brief speech on Indian rights in the small Oaxaca city of Juchitan on Sunday evening without incident. 88. Marcos is leading a two-week trek through Mexico to build support for an Indian rights and autonomy bill. 89. Mexicans voted in a nonbinding referendum on Indian rights, hoping their voices could break an impasse in negotiations between the government and Zapatista rebels. 90. Marcos is not an Indian, but most of the Zapatistas are, and the group has made Indian rights its main demand. |