The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) is an armed revolutionary group based in Chiapas, one of the poorest states of Mexico. The EZLN claims to represent the rights of the indigenous population, but also sees itself and is seen as part of a wider anti-capitalist movement, fighting for democracy, peace and justice for all Mexicans, and for all people. The Zapatistas are consciously opposed to neoliberalism, the economic system advocated by the Mexican presidents from 1982 to 2000. The group takes its name from the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata; they see themselves as his ideological heir and the heir to 500 years of indigenous resistance against imperialism

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SALA DE NOTICIAS / NEWSWIRE
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cobertura instantanea de las protestas y los temas de interés / up to the minute coverage of the protests and issues.
Communicados / Communiqués

!Ya Basta! EZLN site

Zapatista Information Centre (ezlnaldf, en espanol)

Caravan Info from Narconews

Mexico Solidarity Network

Estadisticas de Chiapas / Statistics in Chiapas
Denuncias DDHH / Human Rights Violations

University of Texas Student site:The Zapatistas have given us the opportunity to follow their struggle through extensive communiques that have been distributed through the Mexican press and internationally via the Internet. Through such documents as The Declaration of War and Revolutionary Laws, the Zapatistas articulate a critique of neoliberalism that guides their demands for Liberty! Justice! Democracy!

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