What Is The Relationship Between The Zapans And The Ezln

The image of a somewhat cohesive revolutionary party working towards peace put forth by Womack draws a stark line between the “bandit” enemy described by General Huerta and the Zapatistas. Brunk, in his writings on Zapata, challenges this narrative by exploring the gray space that does not allow for easy delineation between revolutionaries and bandits. Rather than existing as an arbitrary offshoot of Zapatismo, “banditry represented the pursuit of local political (and economic) goals” (Brunk, 349). Womack does acknowledge the “insoluble village rivalries that only compromise could ease”, but does not relate them directly to feuds involving bandits (Womack, 233). The nature of local politics was arguably defined by the multiplicity of intrinsic power struggles over local democratization.

The Chiapas Rebellion and the EZLN Manifestos pulled back the veil revealing to the world Mexico’s rural poverty and especially the poverty oppression of the indigenous people. The EZLN had led the first leftist, armed rebellion since the fall of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union, a new left had arisen in the Lacandón Jungle of Chiapas. This revolution impacted society because nobody wanted to stand up and fight against the government. They fought for work, land, housing, food, health, education, independence, liberty, democracy, justice and

In 1994 Mexico 's leaders entered into trade agreements with foreign interests (NAFTA) that at US insistence, made changes to their constitution that effectively ended Indian communal land right, making it possible for Foreign corporations to take Indian land and resources. The Maya rose up in rebellion to defend their land and their culture. This courageous act of resistance against a system that was sucking the life out of an already beleaguered population brought the wrath of the Mexican government on any community in Chiapas suspected of supporting the Zapatista rebels (EZLN). When President Zedillo tried to solve the "Chiapas problem" in February 1995 by launching a military attack, domestic and international criticism forced him to

In many ways, it is a new type of social movement all together. It is a manifestation of the two periods of revolution Latin America. Influenced by the Cuban Revolution and movements like it in the 1960s, as well as movements in modern times, the EZLN has blended the two to in many ways create their own unique movement. Perhaps because of all the changes that have occurred around the world in the period between the 1970s-1994, the EZLN does not neatly fit into any social movement theory paradigm. The movement’s own change over time has mean that it does not it fit into a social movement theory. As a result of existing for so long it saw changes in what its members wanted to accomplish. In the beginning it began as a classical Marxist movement which was very reflective of the ideals the Cuban Revolution inspired. As time went on this changed it became more in line with modern movements with its focus on

The Zapatistas are a group of revolutionary political and militant group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico. The Zapatistas started as a mainly militant group seeking to overthrow the Mexican government in the state of Chiapas. On January 1, 1994 the Zapatistas went public. January 1st, 1994 was also the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. The Zapatistas felt as if the Mexican government was so out of touch with the lives of its everyday citizens that it couldn’t possibly be fit to govern. The Zapatistas felt that the NAFTA would increase the economic gap between the rich and the poor people in

The nationalization of oil companies under the presidency of Lazaro Cárdenas is perhaps one of the most widely discussed instances in Mexican history, along with Independence and Revolution. One can see the common theme in these episodes: the explosion of national revolutionary sentiments causing important upheavals in the structures of society. The promises these movements made were seldom realized, but people still remember and regard them as the pillars of the nation. The expression of Nacionalismo Revolucionario remains an integral ethos across Mexican social

The end of the 20th century is coming to close, and all of the sudden all you here is a group called the Zapatista Movement. The movement was recognized all over the world in a matter of a day January 1st of 1994, the indigenous farmers of southern Mexico took arms and declared autonomy from the Mexican State. This radical uprising was in response to the globalization and free trade agreement, more in particular The North American Free Trade Agreement that was in effect on January 1st of 1994 as was the movement. The Zapatista Movement response to the Free Trade Agreement was the people wanted land, liberty, and the ability to alter their own future as they please. However, the Mexican Government wouldn’t allow it, which gave rise to the Zapatista

The P.R.I. is a Mexican political party. P.R.I. stands for Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Its goal was to change Mexican politics and make society more equitable. Once the P.R.I. was elected, the government changed rapidly. Because of these rapid changes, there was a lot of uncertainty among the Mexican people. Everybody was in search of a paramount person to help them fight for their own personal causes. While the P.R.I. may have achieved its goal of revolutionizing Mexico, it made the Mexican people very dubious of the government, by instilling in them, a lack of trust in the government for not disclosing all of the information it should have, a feeling of not being able to have control in society and politics, and the fear of voter fraud and corruption.

E: In addition to the very weak economy, the government did not help the people of Mexico. E: During that time, authoritarianism, which values order and control over personal freedom, was in place. This created a tolerance for impunity in police forces (Davis). A: Since police had no higher

The persistent presence of “desabasteciemiento” in Venezuela seems to be ironic given the country’s prior efforts to transform into a more redistributive society. Under the presidency of Hugo Chavez, the citizenry was mobilized through popular referendums to change the political order for the “better.” Constitutional assemblies, replacements, and amendments directly included alienated citizens into politics, and created Chavismo - a strong political movement in support of Chavez and his social welfare policies.

In an overview of this week’s readings the central focus of material was primarily centered around the PRI and their ability to control and overwhelmingly dominate the political realm of Mexico during the entirety of the 20th century. There are three main factors I taken away which could contribute to the constant rule of an authoritarian/ democratic mix that is the single-party system of the PRI; corruption, resources, and weak political opponents. As mentioned in lecture the amount of corruption that actually took place during the reign of PRI control is unaccountable; from clientelism to selective repression, corruption at the local and national level was ever apparent. Hellman explains both types of these in ‘The Student Movement of 1968’ by showing the dominance of PRI and their handling of “serious movements in the past which disintegrated when leadership was bought off (clientelism) or eliminated

The Socialist Party’s contributions to the transition played a major role in these negotiated pacts. The PSOE’s original party platform was Marxism and democratic rupture. Democratic rupture declared the removal of remnants of Francoism from the government that included the ‘bunker.’ Felipe González and the Vice-Secretary General Alfonso Guerra led the change in the PSOE’s change in policy. González, Guerra, and their supporters within the socialist party argued the party’s slogan should not use Marxism. For González, the success of Suárez and his policies on amnesty, free elections, and the PCE’s legalization led to his decision that the PSOE needed to become more moderate. Suárez’s social conservative polices also worked against the PSOE

For a long time, the political force of the labor movement in Mexico was related to the Mexican State and its main political party: the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (Middlebrook, 1995). In this framework two types of unions emerged; the official and independent unions (Bensusán and Alcalde, 2000: 174).

In so few words, the Zapatistas are a people united in the struggle for the rights and dignity of the indigenous people of Mexico. They are a group composed of the natives to the land of the state of Chiapas, the southernmost and poorest state in Mexico, which primarily consists of the tribes of the Mayan peoples. The conditions that these indigenous people live in are a testament to the injustices caused by the spread of colonialism and capitalism and the blind eye that its institutions and governments have turned to the people who inhabit the land from which its profits are made. The suffering has given these people a voice, and the collective struggle has given rise to an

As of December, 2003, the EZLN had established 38 autonomous municipalities which “have constructed a series of schools, clinics and co-ops that fill the openings created by the rebels’ refusal to take money from the mal gobierno (bad government).” In addition, the Zapatistas have created five organizational centers (caracoles) and established Juntas of Good Government in each of them in order to “resolve conflicts and disequilibrium between the centers and the outlying autonomies.” The caracoles mark the EZLN’s first success with regional, as opposed to municipal, autonomy. These Zapatista achievements can be attributed to the local terrain of Chiapas, the legal restraints of legislation, as well as local and national scrutiny.