Mexico's Supreme Court on Friday rejected challenges to an Indian rights law, angering rebel supporters who accused authorities of abandoning the nation's indigenous peoples.
The 8-3 ruling is likely to spark protests by rebel sympathizers who had all but frozen their dialogue with the government for the last year. They argued the law did not go far enough in protecting Mexico's Indians.
Enrique Avela, a spokesman for the Zapatista Front in Mexico City, called the high court's decision "a tragedy.''

{and yet the story headlines in the Guardian and elsewhere as "Mexican Court Upholds Indian Rights ", but it's not really about Indian rights, or indigenous rights, or human rights at all. it's about property rights. the property rights of successful thieves. thieves who are getting mighty nervous.}