Voters will elect governors in the states of Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Tabasco and Yucatan.
The Catholic church has urged the new minister to consult its bishops in Chiapas.
The trucks were stopped on a highway near the state capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez.
The health minister, Juan Ramon de la Fuente, admits that there is no short-term remedy for Chiapas.
She was born into poverty in the southern state of Chiapas in 1945.
Chiapas's new governor will also depend on Mr Fox for money, since government in Mexico is still heavily centralised.
Mr Salazar says he hopes that under Mr Fox more of Chiapas's own wealth will come back to it.
The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas on January 1st 1994 threw Mexico into turmoil.
In 1994 70 percent of the coffee producers in Chiapas worked plots of land that were smaller than four acres.
The discovery, made in Mexico's southern Chiapas state, is one of the biggest cases of suspected human trafficking, police say.
Liberal churchmen in Chiapas have been trying to recruit more Indians to the clergy, even allowing married ones to join.
ECONOMIST: The Mexicans treated as aliens in their own country
Most cafes use Mexican coffee from Chiapas or Veracruz and also sell the beans, which vary by strength and are often organic.
Mexico's government took a step towards settling the Zapatist rebellion in Chiapas.
He has taken a big gamble with the tour: after such a build-up, it would be hard for him go back to Chiapas empty-handed.
This (albeit much smaller) force is most active in Oaxaca, next to Chiapas, and in Guerrero, which has more insurgent groups than any other state.
Farmers in Chiapas have moved into Fair Trade coffee production.
Chiapas contains oil reserves, generates a quarter of Mexico's electricity by hydropower and, if it could settle some of its conflicts, might attract many more tourists.
Some of the Zapotecs, though, were proud of their heritage and practising autonomy long before the Zapatista uprising in the neighbouring state of Chiapas in 1994.
That sentiment is found even in places once linked with political tension, such as Chiapas state and Oaxaca City, where political protest turned into a stand-off in 2006.
So the election may offer Chiapas a much-needed fresh start.
To many Mexicans, Chiapas, its poverty and its Zapatist rebels are like Czechoslovakia to pre-1939 Britons, a far-off country of which they know little and would gladly hear less.
Now the Kellogg Foundation has stepped up with a major grant to launch a People-to-People program, mobilizing Mexican American assistance for community projects and organizations in southern Mexico, beginning in Chiapas.
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For Jesuit priests like Serjio Cobo, who heads a Catholic agency that works in Chiapas, the canonisation of Juan Diego is merely a distraction from the real problems the church faces.
Such cultural sensitivity among churchmen in Mexico, however, is relatively recent, and many Mexican Catholics disapprove of what they see as the willingness of churchmen in Chiapas to bend to paganism.
ECONOMIST: The Mexicans treated as aliens in their own country
Down in Chiapas, where pesos are few, reasons for celebration fewer and bail-outs for those who lack either fewer still, humankind has had to worry about something more basic: staying alive.
You can camp in quiet woods at Rancho San Nicolas, just a 15 minute walk from the cafes and bars in the hip town of San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico.
Election authorities suspended voting an hour early at nine polls in the southern state of Chiapas Sunday after clashes between political groups backing competing candidates for mayor in the town of Rincon Chamula.
Roberto Blancarte, a sociologist of religion at the Colegio de Mexico, points out that in Chiapas, a state with a high proportion of indigenous people, almost 14% of the population is now Protestant.
Just a few years before the rot set in, Maya painters at the site of Bonampak, a small city in Chiapas, Mexico, covered the walls of a small three-room palace with extraordinary murals.
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