Mexico’s Zapatista rebel movement says it is dissolving its ‘autonomous municipalities’
MEXICO CITY (AP) – The Zapatista indigenous opposition movement in southern Mexico announced in a statement posted Monday that it would dissolve the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years after the group’s 1994 armed uprising. The Zapatistas led a short-lived rebellion demanding greater indigenous rights and have since remained in an “autonomous” region in […]
Hundreds of North Carolina municipalities begin early voting
Fall elections are in full swing with hundreds of North Carolina municipalities beginning early voting for mayoral and city council seats. More than 460 cities, towns and villages are holding elections culminating on Nov. 7 in Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Durham, Fayetteville and other cities, according to the state Board of Elections. All but 80 of […]
