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Contains administrative files, contact lists, conference materials, working group files, correspondence, reprints, and other assorted materials related to WOLA staff activities for Mexico. Topics include delegations to Mexico; WOLA's role as a co-coordinator of roundtables on Mexico in 1994-1995 on Chiapas, drug trafficking, and the process of democratic reform; events and other talks about human rights in Mexico led by WOLA staff.

Includes materials such as clippings, reports, correspondence, press releases and urgent actions, hill drops, newsletters, printed material, and other assorted materials on Mexico. Covers a wide variety of topics on politics, government, the economy, US relations, drugs, WOLA talks and delegations, but most materials focus on human rights issues and elections. Topics relating to human rights include documenting human rights abuses particularly in Chiapas after the Zapatista uprising and elsewhere, including violence against indigenous communities, the Acetal massacre, the Aguas Blancas massacre, and against individuals such as General Gallardo, Digna Ochoa, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera. Elections cover mainly those between 1994-2000 and include information on electoral reform, voting, candidates, election results and observers; this includes WOLA delegations and the group, Alianza Civica's work in election analysis, voting guides, and poll observer manuals.

Includes articles, reports, and other assorted materials related to the abuses committed during hostilities between the ruling of the Sandinista (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) government and the various counter insurgent groups commonly called "Contras" as well as the FSLN's treatment of political dissidents.