On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) made itself known to the world by taking up arms in the province of Chiapas, Mexico. These hooded natives are revolting against the poverty and social exclusion of which they claim to be victims for more than five hundred years. The date of their uprising was not chosen at random. It was on this same day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force. Since then, the Zapatista movement has been organizing to resist the government's counter-insurgency strategy, but also its neoliberal policy materialized in particular by the “Meso-American Integration and Development Project”.
An article by Stefan Reinhold, from the Latin America group of Justice and Peace. Read the article on the Revue Nouvelle website Read part 1 Read part 2 Read part 3
