Masked rebels dance during the fourth-anniversary celebration of the Zapatista uprising in the Chiapas highland village of Oventic early January 1. Mexican rebel leader Subcommander Marcos in a statement issued from his stronghold in the Lacandon jungle said that the army is planning to attack them. Forty-five unarmed peasants, most of them women and children, were gunned down on December 22 by a paramilitary band.

MEXICO MASSACRE