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(1) In the 1990s Felipe’s group stopped the logging by
blockading roads
kidnapping loggers
bombing a logging camp
killing the president of a logging company in an ambush
(2) Felipe grew up
in a poor neighbourhood in Mexico City
in a Mexican neighbourhood in Los Angeles
in the mountains of Guerrero
in a coastal town in the state of Guerrero
(3) After the Mexican revolution in 1917, the government
sold land cheaply to individual peasants
gave communal land to all villages
gave land to individual peasants
sold land to American logging companies
(4) When Abel Bautista was shot
he was walking across a bridge
he was having lunch at a restaurant
he was riding in a car
he was arguing with Felipe about land ownership
(5) Priscilliano Bautista said
he knew the murderer’s names and what they were wearing
he knew the murderer’s names but he didn’t remember what they were wearing
he remembered what the murderers were wearing but he didn’t know their names
he didn’t know the murderers names or remember what they were wearing
(6) When Felipe went on trial he said that the day Abel Bauista was shot
he had been in a cave hiding from soldiers
he had been participating in a demonstration in Mexico City
he had been planting trees in a distant village
he had been receiving medical treatment in a distant village
(7) When the Mexican army attacked Felipe’s home
he was captured but not injured
he was injured but escaped
he escaped injury
he was captured and injured
(8) After the logging had been stopped and the army had stopped looking for Felipe
he started teaching the peasants how to read and write
he took his wife to Venezuela for a holiday
he worked with the peasants, teaching them how to use the land efficiently
he spent his time in Peru studying erosion prevention