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6 unusual facts about Zapatista Army of National Liberation


Chevolution

The Zapatistas for instance, continue to harvest the seed that Che left instill in them and continues to have meaning.

David Diaz-Infante

Diaz-Infante's father Marco Ignatio was a Mexican immigrant to the U.S. and was a Zapatista who died in 1988; Diaz-Infante's mother is Finnish American.

Progressive Student Network

In the aftermath of the war, the student movement declined considerably, and the PSN faded away by 1994, after doing organizing in 1992 against the celebration of 500 years since Christopher Columbus's 1492 'discovery' of America; against the coup in Haiti that overthrew elected leader Jean Bertrand Aristide; and in support of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico.

Rising Appalachia

After working with visual arts during her early school days Leah Smith graduated from Grady High School and moved at the age of nineteen to Mexico to study and work alongside the Zapatista movement.

Zapatista

Zapatista Army of National Liberation, formed 1994, a Mexican indigenous armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

The Zapatistas are featured prominently in Rage Against the Machine's songs, in particular "People of the Sun", "Wind Below", "Zapata's Blood", and "War Within a Breath".


1995 Zapatista Crisis

On appeal, the Court dismisses the previous condemnatory Sentence for the alleged Zapatistas Javier Elorriaga Berdegué and Sebastian Etzin Gomez given on May 2, 1996 for the crime of terrorism, with 13 and 6 years of imprisonment respectively and they were released on June 6, 1996.

Cinco Puntos Press

Cinco Puntos received national notoriety when, in March 1999, it published the book The Story of Colors / La Historia de los colores written by Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico.

Isabel Bacardit

She meets Ofelia Medina and makes contact with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, where she becomes strongly influenced by elements of indigenous symbolism and spirituality.

Les Zapartistes

The group's name comes from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a Mexican political movement that defends the Chiapas Indians, and from l'Aparté, a small Montreal café where the group was founded.

Mas alla de los Gritos

These bands that emerged during the early 90’s were politically resistant to border brutality, Chican@/Latin@ identity in the barrio, transborder struggles, Pete Wilson and the passing of Prop 187, NAFTA, the uprising of the Zapatista army in Mexico, Xenophobia, the Berkeley Pro-Affirmative Action Rally, police brutality, discrimination and racism amongst other social issues.

Nick Cooper

In 2004 and 2006, Cooper traveled to Chiapas to study the Zapatista movement and used the information he learned as the basis for a workshop entitled "Nazis vs. Zapatistas, Struggle and Co-optation" which he has facilitated in the U.S. and Latin America.

Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía

Also, he intervened in the editing of the Initiative on rights and native culture, emanated of the San Andrés Accords reached in San Andrés Larráinzar, between the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN.

Radical democracy

Theorists such as Paul Chatterton and Richard JF Day have written about the importance of radical democracy within some of the autonomous movements in Latin America (namely the EZLN - Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Mexico, the MST - Landless Workers' Movement in Brazil, and the Piquetero - Unemployed Workers Movement in Argentina).


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