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“We Are Here”: Zapatistas Send Silent Message With the Return of the PRI

Posted 30 December 2012 | By | Categories: Citizen Action, Democracy, Drug War, Indigenous People, Mexico & Border | Comments Off

Imagine close to 50,000 people marching in absolute silence, in five different townships, from two to five hours apart. Not a word, nor even a greeting. Just a raised fist in a sign of strength, determination and unity. Streets overflowing with masked faces and wordlessness. It is a huge demonstration of force–the largest in the entire history of the Zapatista movement–just days before the 19th anniversary of their first public appearance and 30 years since their founding.

Caracol #4: Morelia

Posted 15 December 2008 | By | Categories: Citizen Action, Democracy, Indigenous People, Mexico & Border | No Comments

A tree-fringed river cuts through the fourth Zapatista Caracol, in the ejido of Morelia, in Altamirano. It is the Tzotz Choj region (“brave tiger” in Tzeltzal)—a zone of cattle ranchers and paramilitaries, the place where the federal army raped an indigenous woman and tortured and killed three EZLN militants in 1994.

Caracol #2: Oventic

Posted 15 December 2008 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Democracy, Indigenous People, Mexico & Border | No Comments

It’s midsummer and the dawns and sunsets in Oventic are accompanied by a cold mist that shrouds the Caracol of Los Altos, home of the Tzotzil Zapatistas. This is a rebel region, a place of poverty and extreme marginalization, and also the Zapatista territory most visited by people from all over the world. In the first year of autonomous self-government, 4,458 visitors came here from across the globe.