2/12/2003: Mexican car protest

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From the interesting protests department. The official caption reads:

<i>In Buena Vista, Chiapas, militant members of the Emiliano Zapata Campesino Organization of Democratic Independence overturned vehicles that were not legally licensed as public transportation. Twenty people were hurt.</i>

Googling for the organization name turned up nothing. So apparently you had this really militant group, coming out of nowhere, terribly ticked off about... <i>gypsy cabs?</i> Is that all? How could it be?

But maybe their real goal is to stop people from using their own cars - is this some sort of anti-driving, pro-public transportation movement? What's democratic and independent about that?

And what's the big deal about vehicles when there's no road to drive them on?