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A 25 page paper that looks at the New Year's Day 1994 Zapatista revolution, the history leading up to the revolution, the revolutionaries, the Mexican government's response, and the U.S. response, with a look at the Zapatistas today. Bibliography lists 22 sources.
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progress with (1) its declaration of war against the Salinas administration and (2) its armed seizure of a number of key cities in the southern state of Chiapas. The events
of that fateful New Years Day shook every previously held perception of the new, "modernized" Mexico. The shock to Mexicos new image could not have been more redolent of
the race, class, religion, and land conflicts that had riven Mexico for centuries. While the Mexican government and numerous media
outlets sympathetic to the state have tried to portray the EZLN as run by a small group of urban outsiders taking advantage of Chiapas indigenous populations, those who have studied
the origins of the EZLN document a 20-year or more pattern of grass-roots organizing in indigenous peasant communities. "The time has passed for considering the peasant question simply in
terms of price guarantees for corn or redistribution of land for labor-intensive household-based productions" (Collier, 1994; pp. 15). Andres Oppenheimer writes: More than two years after their uprising
began, Mexicos Zapatista rebels and their charismatic leader, Subcommander Marcos, have lost momentum. Militarily, they remain surrounded by the Mexican army in a remote corner of the southern state of
Chiapas. Politically, marathon peace talks with the government have disappeared from the front page and may soon break off altogether. Yet, for all their woes, the Zapatistas have one thing
going for them: they continue to fascinate socially conscious activists and radical chic celebrities in Europe and the U.S. (Oppenheimer, 1996; pp. 22(2))
What are the Roots of the Rebellion and the Zapatistas? According to David Collier, T. R. Fehrenbach, Enrique Krauze, and others,
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