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  2. Zapatista Army of National Liberation - Wikipedia

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    The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), often referred to as the Zapatistas (Mexican Spanish pronunciation: [sapaˈtistas]), is a far-left political and militant group that controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  3. Zapatista uprising - Wikipedia

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    The Zapatista Movement has extended beyond the uprising in 1994 as both an international solidarity movement and a source of lessons and inspiration for grassroots social movements across the world, including the U.S. Occupy Movement in 2011, and the protests in 2014 after the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher's college in ...

  4. Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities - Wikipedia

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    Since 2003, the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (MAREZ) coordinated in very small groups called caracoles (English: "snails" or "seashells"). Before that, the Neo-Zapatistas used the title of Aguascalientes after the site of the EZLN-organized National Democratic Convention on 8 August 1994; [15] this name alluded to the Convention of Aguascalientes during the Mexican Revolution ...

  5. Women in the EZLN - Wikipedia

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    The Zapatistas’ movement was the first time a guerrilla movement held women's liberation as part of the agenda for the uprising. Major Ana Maria—who was not only the woman who lead the EZLN capture of San Cristobal de las Casas during the uprising, but also one of the women who helped create the Women's Revolutionary Law, ‘A general law ...

  6. The Other Campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Other Campaign emerged from a 12-year-long struggle for indigenous rights, known as the Zapatista Movement or Zapatismo. [1] This movement began on January 1, 1994 with an uprising in Chiapas, Mexico [5] to protest the North American Free Trade Agreement and fight for the recognition and protection of rights for the indigenous people of Mexico. [6]

  7. Major Ana María - Wikipedia

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    It was within the EZLN that she acquired her political opinions and learned how to use weapons. [5] As one of the first women in the movement, she opened the path for others to join, which led some to create women-only groups of compañeras. To her, the main demands of the EZLN movement were democracy and liberty. [6]

  8. Neozapatismo - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Neozapatista movement. Neozapatismo or neozapatism (sometimes simply Zapatismo) is the political philosophy and practice devised and employed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), who have instituted governments in a number of communities in Chiapas, Mexico, since the beginning of the Chiapas conflict.

  9. 1995 Zapatista Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The 1995 Zapatista Crisis was a political crisis in Mexico in the aftermath of the 1994 Zapatista uprisings, which began as a result of the 1991 revision of Article 27 of Mexico's Constitution. This revision caused unrest in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, as many indigenous tribes believed the article's revision negatively affected them ...