In the first of three brief accounts, Lola Sepúlveda of the Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo shares the pre-history of the EZLN, that is, the peasant organizing prior to the uprising.
In the wake of the violent detention of 95 students of Mactumactzá, Tanalis Padilla provides this excellent 3-minute history of the legacy and struggle of the Rural Normal Schools in Mexico.
Mactumactzá in the Crosshairs READ MORE »
Since the beginning of calendar of the insurrection, the image of the boat has been a central part of the metaphors in the Zapatista narrative. It is a curious irony that a political-military force territorially nestled in the jungles and mountains of Chiapas, hundreds of kilometers from the sea, resorts to the boat as a symbol of its emancipatory project.
The Mountain and the Night Sky of the Lacandon READ MORE »
“The shades of regional history are like windows to peek out on the tragedy of the Republic; the project of Zapata converted into a national project. Anenecuilco, Xochicalco and Amilcingo are all communities in the state of Morelos that sum up the dreams, at once modest and profound, of men of the countryside, and the betrayals they have been subjected to, far beyond Morelos.”
Samir Flores: The Wound of Amilcingo READ MORE »
