The Zapatistas after 30 years
On 1 January 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a few thousand mostly indigenous guerrillas, came out of the Lacandón jungle in Chiapas, Mexico with the cry of “Ya Basta” — Enough. On the day of the uprising, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, Canada and the United States came into force. The EZLN, fronted by subcomandante Marcos, called for the cancellation of NAFTA, land reform and indigenous autonomy. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, in his last year leading the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), sent the Mexican military to...