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Progressive.org
April 5, 2018
Since then, the Zapatistas have been organizing local governing bodies, health care, education, and developing new cooperative economic models. They enshrined the defense of indigenous culture in the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, the Zapatista manifesto for a world where “many worlds”Ãâà...
teleSUR English
April 2, 2018
The Istmo Indigenous Peoples Assembly in Defense of Land and Territory also joined the declarations and reaffirmed their commitment to the ... (CNI), a nation-wide indigenous network backed by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which published the different press releases on its website.
CGTN America (blog)
February 12, 2018
In Mexico, voters will have an unexpected choice when they cast their ballots for president. For the first time, an indigenous woman is running for president, backed by the rebel Zapatista movement. She joins a growing list of presidential hopefuls bucking established political parties. CGTN's AlasdairÃâà...
Upside Down World
October 9, 2017
It is the daily practice not only of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement and the Zapatistas, but also of urban democratic spaces such as the ... On occasion, these practices have their own “non-state institutions” – extensive and more or less permanent – such as the Zapatista Councils of GoodÃâà...
The Independent
October 9, 2017
An indigenous woman backed by Mexico's rebel Zapatista movement registered over the weekend to run as an independent candidate in next year's ... Just after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into force in 1994, the EZLN led armed indigenous insurgents in a “declaration of war”Ãâà...
The Atlantic
September 23, 2017
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a group of indigenous rebels in Mexico, seized public buildings in towns and cities across ... But for the Zapatistas, NAFTA represented the recolonization of their country, and they sought to give voice to their protest through armed struggle.
teleSUR English
June 18, 2017
It was also the day that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, also referred to as the Zapatistas, declared war against the pro-NAFTA Mexican ... a war of conquest of the entire world, a world war, a war being waged by capitalism for global domination,” Marcos and the Zapatistas said in their declaration.
Mexico News Daily
November 19, 2016
The denial came this week in an extensive text released by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) one month after it and the National Indigenous ... The communique is puzzling because the original declaration clearly stated that the candidate would be indigenous, not necessarily Zapatista, andÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
February 10, 2016
The Zapatistas -- shorthand for Zapatista National Liberation Army, also called the EZLN -- wanted to undermine the treaty's free-trade goals and embarrass Carlos Salinas de Gortari, then president of Mexico. ... The goals of the Zapatistas were laid out in their Declaration From the Lacondon Jungle.
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