Zapatistas

The Zapatistas are a revolutionary group in Chiapas Mexico. They are formally known as Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional with their name coming from inspiration they found in the Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata. The Zapatistas reject political labeling and instead choose to align with alter-globalization, anti-neoliberalism, and decolonization seeking indigenious natural resource control.

The Zapatista movement kicked off in 1994 when Zapatista guerilla forces and indigenious groups started an uprising in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Source 2 goes on to say: "Though the signing of NAFTA is generally agreed to be the most direct catalyst for the rebellion, additional significant factors include “a combination of ecological crisis, lack of available productive land, the drying up of nonagricultural sources of income, the political and religious reorganization of indigenous communities since the 1960s, and the re-articulation of ethnic identities with emancipatory political discourses”"

''We, the men and women of the EZLN, full and free are conscious that the war that we have declared is a last resort, but also a just one. The dictators have been applying an undeclared genocidal war against our people for many years. Therefore we ask for your participation in and support of this plan that struggles for work, land housing, food, healthcare, education, independence, freedom, democracy, justice, and peace. We declare that we will not stop fighting until the basic demands of our people have been met by forming a government of our country that is free and democratic.''

—First Declaration from the Lancandon Jungle

In 2014, the Zapatistas had declaired their solidarity with the people of Palestine: "Tacho condemned Israel’s “war of extermination” against the Palestinian people in Gaza. and said the Zapatistas “embrace the [Palestinian people] today as we have before, as we always do.”" The Zapatistas view the similarities between their struggles and the struggles of the Palestinian people- victims of Neo-colonialism.

“To the Zapatistas it looks like there’s a professional army murdering a defenseless population.”

Source 4 continues on with: "During the recent attack on Zapatista communities, leading to the murder of the teacher Galeano, a group of prominent Palestinians sent out a message of support from the occupied territories, referring to the “nakba (catastrophe) in Chiapas.”"

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