Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)
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Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)
Radical murals seen around Oventic, an indigenous Zapatista village in Chiapas, Mexico.
On January 1st, 1994 the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) launched an armed insurrection in Chiapas against the Mexican state and the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement.
The Zapatistas are a resistance movement of indigenous villagers in the mountains and jungles of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest and southern-most state.
mexicosolidarity.com
Today is the birthday of the great Emiliano Zapata Salazar, hero and martyr of the Mexican Revolution.
He was born in San Miguel Anenecuilco, Morelos, on August 8, 1879.
The task of the nationalization of the landlords, científicos, and bosses still remains…
la bêche et l'épée contre l'usurier!
"The flower of the word will not die. The masked face which today has a name may die, but the word which came from the depth of history and the earth can no longer be cut by the ears with its cannons.
We were born of the night. We live in the night. We will die in her. But the light will be tomorrow for others, for all those who today weep at the night, for those who have been denied the day, for those for whom death is a gift, for those who are denied life. The light will be for all of them. For everyone everything. For us pain and anguish, for us the joy of rebellion, for us a future denied, for us the dignity of insurrection. For us nothing."
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, "Fourth Declaration of the Lacandon Forest," Chiapas, January 1996
Zapatista fighter in Chiapas, Mexico
Photographed by Cesar Bojorquez, 1999
Zapatista with guitarron