“The logic of capital is to try to convince us that everything can be done with a technological change where you replace one thing with another and that’s it, everything else can remain the same. Up there they say, ‘Let’s give money to adapt to this world degraded by capitalism,’ while the Zapatistas say, ‘It’s not about that, but about how we are going to defend life, the life that remains, through a process of siding with life,’”

“The nation-state has no decision-making capacity. Sovereignty is a bad joke. They can’t say that Mexico is sovereign, even if they say so at the morning press conference, if it can’t even decide whether to send oil to Cuba. It is not possible. In a developed nation-state, that decision rests with the government, to say who to give or sell to, or who not to. That is no longer possible.”