Zapatistas

Zapatistas

As Zapatistas or Zapatista largely be social revolutionary indigenous political factions in the south of Mexico , especially in the state of Chiapas , respectively.

The Zapatistas received international attention in 1994 as a result of the armed uprising of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional under Subcomandante Marcos . The name of the Zapatistas goes back to Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), probably the most famous leader of the Mexican Revolution in southern Mexico and his comrades-in-arms who belonged to the Ejército Libertador del Sur (German: "Liberation Army of the South"). Therefore, a distinction is sometimes made between Zapatistas and Neo-Zapatistas.

→ Main article : Zapatista Army of National Liberation

literature

• Raina Zimmering: The Zapatistas in Mexico. The anti-systemic and anti-statistical character of a popular movement . Universitätsverlag Potsdam, Potsdam 2010, ISBN 978-3-86956-046-5 .

Web links

• Imagining the Zapatistas (accessed November 2, 2015)
• Reimagining The Possible: Zapatista Discourse (accessed November 2, 2015)