Years ago I was here in San Cristobol de las Casas just after the Zapatista rebellion had killed many innocent people in this region. As always when innocent people are killed, no was was right. I remember feeling the tremendous tension everywhere in town and even more in the countryside. Soldiers, tanks, and machine guns have a way of doing that to people. Today, in San Cris there was a protest. A small one to be sure, something about classes at the local university. It was not the cause that stirred the pot but the presence of the military driving around the Zocalo. In a place where kindness is common to the homeless, the old, and stray dogs you would think people and governments could do the same. Maybe it really is time to do it a different way.....
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