Indian sympathizers of the Zapatista rebels briefly seized a state-owned radio station on Thursday to read a denunciation of the World Trade Organization.

Several hundred people took part in a march to and seizure of station XERA. They then left.

An unidentified man read a statement opposing the WTO, which is meeting in Cancun, Mexico, as well as the Plan Puebla-Panama, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank "and all multilateral plans that seek to exploit us and rob us of our riches."

He said that free-trade policies "have only impoverished the most vulnerable sectors" while making the rich richer.

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