In 2015, I went to Oventic, one of the seven outreach caracoles of this ultra-leftist revolutionary group, and now I’m going to show you how to get there yourself.

This new The The Zapatistas are composed of five regions, in total having a population of around 360,000 people as of 2018.

In addition, there was a complaint by the Las Abejas Civil Society Organization that stated that an indigenous Tzotzil person was assassinated on June 23 on 2015. Military and organizational matters are decided by the Zapatista area elders who compose the General Command (Revolutionary Indigenous Clandestine Committee – General Command, or CCRI-CG).[14]. On the other hand, indigenous communities are vigorously struggling against the dispossession that this would entail and defending their claims to territory, often through the conscious creation of ‘counter-spaces’. century context when those two major factions disputed the national But from behind those masks always peer two friendly, welcoming eyes that reassure you that you’re in the right place. purposes of the new body. As Subcomandante Marcos, the movement’s visionary and poetic faux-leader, explains in the First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle: We are a product of 500 years of struggle: first against slavery, then during the War of Independence against Spain led by insurgents, then to avoid being absorbed by North American imperialism, then to promulgate our constitution and expel the French empire from our soil, and later the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz denied us the just application of the Reform laws and the people rebelled and leaders like Villa and Zapata emerged, poor men just like us.
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the communities of the Autonomous Zapatista Municipalities. But it’s right here. They invited indigenous people from throughout the Americas and the rest of the world to gather on October 11–14, 2007, near Guaymas, Sonora. organized crime but also those where organized communities resist the military encirclement of the Zapatistas is tightening. <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 9 0 R 10 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Liberation and the Zapatista movement as a whole.

One of the Zapatista’s first actions was to institute the Women’s Revolutionary Law and women’s rights are a core foundation of el Zapatismo.

are no autonomous Zapatista communities. In late 2006 and early 2007, the Zapatistas (through Subcomandante Marcos), along with other indigenous peoples of the Americas, announced the Intercontinental Indigenous Encounter. Combis are shared vans which commonly substitute for buses in southern Mexican states such as Oaxaca and Chiapas. The street sign is on the left, as you can see.

Using this market as a landmark, you know that you only have to continue walking north for four minutes (300 meters) before you arrive at the taxi stand to Oventic. Translated by Dan Fischer, 'Resistencia Autónoma: Cuaderno de texto de primer grado del curso de "La Libertad según l@s Zapatistas" 19. In 2005, 84.2% of Zapatista children were fully vaccinated, while that figure stood at 74.8% in pro-government communities.
And remember…, How to Get to Oventic, the Rebel Headquarters of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, “Queremos un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos. Planting consciousness in order to harvest revolutions for life, Steps of History, for the life of Humanity, The heart of rebellious seeds collective, memory of Comrade Galeano, Seed that flourishes with the conscience of those who struggle forever, Dignified spiral weaving the colors of humanity in memory of the fallen ones, New Dawn in resistance and rebellion for life and humanity, The rebellious thinking of the original peoples, Root of the resistances and the rebellions for humanity, Flower of our word and light of our people that reflects for all. Under the arches of the mayor's office, which today suspended its activities, dozens of Ocosinguenses gathered to photograph with cell phones and cameras the spectacular concentration of hooded people who filled the park like a game of Tetris, advancing between the planters with an order that seemed choreographed, to get the platform installed quickly from early on, raise their fist and say, quietly, "here we are, once again".[40]. This However, the EZLN insisted that it would not return to peace negotiations with the government until the seven requested military positions were closed. “Six years later, two things are clear,” says the communiqué. also a “Chiapas Regiment 3” in the south of the state where there Obrador’s visión is likely that of “recovering” all the territory.

within three years the National Guard is slated to be active in 266 relationship between those who exploit and those who are exploited. In their praxis, territory is a space that is autogestionado. endobj You’ll be taken for a tour around the small town, which is aligned in two lines along one central road. They would then unilaterally implement their demands without government support, although they had some funding from international organizations.

[19], The Zapatistas run hundreds of schools with thousands of teachers modeled around the principles of democratic education where students and communities collectively decide on school curriculum and students aren't graded.[20]. Since 1994 the group has been nominally at war with the Mexican state. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Spanish pronunciation: [sapaˈtistas]), is a far-left and libertarian socialist political and militant group[5][6][7][8] that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. José Réyez revealed in Contralínea that force, at least as far as the map tells us, is planning to install Mexican police, military, and federal and state government officials are not permitted in …

business interests, media consortiums, and financial groups, among New Book! Following this gesture, Subcomandante Marcos agreed to initiate dialogue with the Vicente Fox government, but shortly thereafter demanded conditions for peace; especially, that the federal government disarm the PRI paramilitary groups in the area.

representative from the Navy (Marine Infantry Rear Admiral Gabriel The Mexican army eased its operation in Chiapas, allowing Marcos to escape the military perimeter in the Lacandon jungle. Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (Spanish: Municipios Autónomos Rebeldes Zapatistas, MAREZ) are de facto autonomous territories controlled by the Neo-zapatista support bases in the Mexican state of Chiapas, founded following the Zapatista uprising which took place in 1994[7] and is part of the wider Chiapas conflict. [29], Several eco-socialist and eco-anarchist authors have praised the efforts of the Zapatistas to construct an ecological society. ", "Mexico's Zapatistas Have Been Rebelling for 25 Years", "In a Mexico 'Tired of Violence,' Zapatista Rebels Venture Into Politics", "Mexico's Zapatista rebels, 24 years on and defiant in mountain strongholds", "A brief history of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation", http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/12372/, The Mysterious Silence of the Mexican Zapatistas, A Commune in Chiapas?

Scattered notes and commentary on politics and geography. So you might be wondering, after all of this, why are the Zapatistas fighting the Mexican government? The EZLN emerged during the government of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico for more than seventy years, in a Dominant-party system. the National Guard is of civil and police nature.

This historical development did not occur in a socio-political vacuum. "Delegate Zero" and his "Other Campaign" were at the time in nearby Mexico City, having just organized May Day events there, and quickly arrived at the scene. The ideology of the Zapatista movement, Neozapatismo, synthesizes Mayan tradition with elements of libertarian socialism, anarchism,[52][53] and Marxism. Combatting But today, we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. A Zapatista slogan is in harmony with the concept of mutual aid: "For everyone, everything. All the combis passing in the reverse direction should be directly direct to San Cristóbal. I’m sure, since you’re the adventurous type, that you’ve always wanted to take a solo trip to the misty jungle mountains of Chiapas, to visit one of the rebel strongholds of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.