Zapatistas lose support in Mexico

Recently, many families, previously loyal to the Zapatista movement, have turned to the government for support in areas such as medical care and education. This and many other similar desertions by families from the movement have served crippling blows to the power of the movement. In the past decade or so, 600 or more families have shifted their trust from the Zapatistas to the Mexican government. I would argue that because of the recent improvement in social, political, and economic conditions in Mexico the people who had previously felt a lot of anti-government sentiment are now comfortable enough to place their trust in the government. This trend of more trust in their governments by the people of Mexico is a good sign of the country's development. In many cases, this same trend can be seen in other Latin American countries which all bodes well for the development of the region as a whole.

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