Zapatistas

NACLA hosted a panel discussion on the Drug War and the Environment in Latin America at the 2013 Left Forum. Listen to economist David Barkin discuss alternative community approaches to environmental sustainability in Latin America.

On February 16, 1995, a pipeline belonging to Pemex, Mexico's state- owned oil company, one of 29 that criss- cross

Paramilitary violence is not new in Chiapas. The men who make up the units now referred to as paramilitaries used

Shortly after the 1994 New Year rebellion, the Zapatistas and the government negotiated a cease-fire. Four years later, Chiapas has

Since the January 1st uprising of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), Subcomandante Marcos-the guerrilla force's most visible leader-has emerged

That morning, in an act of military precision, ten Zapatista sympathizers drove into San Andras, jumped onto the kiosk where

The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the

The massacre at Acteal last December was not an accidental or isolated event. In fact, it was a carefully planned

The people of Nuevo San Isidro watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven

The Zapatista movement is probably one of the best-known examples of dissent against the neoliberal model of economic globalization. On

The Zapatista National Liberation Army emerged from the New Year's uprising as a national political force. Chiapas' recent history explains

"A future with traditions," was the slogan the indigenous movement popularized during the 1992 Quincentennial, the 500th anniversary of Europe’s