Esteban Moctezuma

Esteban Moctezuma Barragán (born October 21, 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is a former senator and served as secretary of social development and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León. From that position, early in January 1995, he sponsored peace talks in Chiapas with the EZLN insurgents; later on, he was active in the San Andres Accords (Los Acuerdos de San Andrés) to promote Constitutional Reforms on behalf of indigenous autonomy. Esteban Moctezuma is considered by some as an important advocate for the Mexican Government’s pacific solution with the EZLN. During the 1995 Zapatista Crisis, since he organized a creative strategy that demonstrated, then, Subcomandante Marcos's natural pacifist tendencies and the terrible consequences of a military solution. He achieved, under adverse conditions, a difficult and improbable reestablishment of peace talks between the Mexican Government and the EZLN.

With President Carlos Salinas de Gortari economic and political reforms, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico was getting propelled as an important player in world economy. When un solved ethnic situation was brewing in the Mexican county, that is when the Zapatistas uprising happen. The Mexican Government started immediate peace talks. In the early days of the new government administration, President Zedillo took a series of erratic decisions that completely broke with the previous administration agreements and with his own action plan previously defined.

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