he Zapatista's platform to include the following: land rights; housing; education; and health care for all (Progressive 15). Rodriguez would later quit her job and move to Mexico to work full-time with the National Commission on Democracy in Mexico to help insure the honesty of an upcoming election. While in Mexico, she was raped and sodomized in Chiapas by what most believe were government forces trying to scare her and others like her. She quotes one of the four masked men who attacked her as saying, "You already know how things are in Chiapas. . . Now shut up. Shut up!" (Banjac 18).
The Indian rebels and their supporters are being suppressed by the PRI through numerous tactics aimed at dividing and conquering those who seek to hang on to their land. In "Social Control and the Mexican Political System," a chapter from Twentieth-Century Mexico, Raat gives an excellent analysis of suppression tactics:
When oppositionists [the indigenous people] refuse to modify their demands [that they be given land rights, among other concessions] or to accommo
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