Road to Resistance: Mexico's Zapatistas Fight for a World Where Many Fit teleSUR
go to original February 9, 2016

The Road of Resistance - Introduction (muzungutv)

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation declared war against the Mexican state on January 1, 1994, launching the Indigenous movement in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas into the international spotlight as an example for autonomous social movements around the world.



But the road to resistance for the Zapatistas has been long and ongoing, and the struggle did not begin when the EZLN went public in conjunction with the launch of the North American Free Trade agreement in 1994. Nor has it ended over 22 years later.



"We erupted and interrupted in 1994, it was not the beginning of war for us as Zapatistas,” said the late EZLN member Juan Vazquez Guzman, who was murdered April 13, 2013. “With its death and destruction, its dispossession and humiliation, we had been enduring for centuries the war from above.”



The revolutionary army of masked Indigenous militants, originally led by Subcomandante Marcos, took up the struggle against neoliberal globalization and capitalism, fighting for the rights of Indigenous people in Mexico and sovereign control over resources, especially land.

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