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- <text id=91TT1170>
- <title>
- May 27, 1991: The Bureaucrat Has No Clothes . . .
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 27, 1991 Orlando
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- The Bureaucrat Has No Clothes...
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Mexican farmers aren't usually as militant as their
- northern counterparts, but they stepped out of character in
- Mexico City earlier this month. Angered by the government's
- refusal to curtail illegal timbering operations on their land,
- several thousand subsistence farmers marched on the Agricultural
- Secretariat. After snarling traffic for four days, the
- campesinos assaulted Jesus Cardena Rodriguez, the secretariat's
- director of forest policy, as he left the building, stripped him
- to his underwear and paraded him through the street for three
- hours. The public display won the peasants a pledge of
- government action.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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