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The latest quarter net also includes $165,000, net of tax recovery, related to the sale of certain claims against a bank debtor.

The Zapatistas made an alliance with an organization of bank debtors and emerged as Mexico's most effective popular movement during the recession of 1995.

The trend is clear in the bare-walled, neon-lit offices here of El Barzon, a nationwide resistance movement of bank debtors that grew explosively last year.

Bankruptcy legislation put in place at the time gave bank debtors generous terms they could restructure under, and most of the banks used this as a means to restructure their debts in their favor, even though they didn't really need to.

The high court ruling provoked protests from bank debtors who had hoped to get judicial backing for a campaign to pay only the principal and minimum interest on their debts, which ballooned when interest rates soared to more than 80 percent during an economic crisis in 1995.

One group of bank debtors declared their outrage at what they saw as profiteering from their tragedy and took the decision to transcribe the whole book, respecting even its layout, and to give it away electronically, in spite of legal threats from the publisher.