Bernardine Coverley spent six months as a volunteer for a Mexican conservation charity and has visited Mexico several times before and since. She has worked as a tutor and materials writer for adult literacy projects, and now works as a gardener, tree-warden, and wood-planter.

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A rolling movement of activists led by Marcos's Zapatistas is mobilising poor people across Mexico in advance of the 2 July elections. Bernardine Coverley reports from the campaign frontline.