The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

382 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA World People—indigenous inhabitants of old European colonial societies—are re- sponding to the pos ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 383 patista loyalists murdered. The news and gory details would have been suppressed or ...

384 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA commodity in the New World, and that they were many thousands of miles closer to the world’s bigge ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 385 out or hired “scab” field hands in the form of Guatemalan and Salvadoran refugees, w ...

386 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA GENERAL STRUCTURAL THEMES OF THE ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT As we move to a consideration of the chronolog ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 387 Zapatista agenda are many “traditional Mayan Catholics” who do not feel attracted to ...

388 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA governments as immoral and dishonorable for their failure to address indigenous rights—inflamed Sp ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 389 Box 10.1 Parallels Between Mayan Calendrical Rites and Zapatista History Beginning a ...

390 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Figure 10.1 Photograph of the Zapatista Rally in 200l at the Zócalo, Mexico City. (Courtesy of /Co ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 391 changed. The masked delegation of twenty-three Zapatista comandantes and Sub- comand ...

392 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA This was an extraordinary event, a kind of coming-out party for the new indigenous voice, called b ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 393 Box 10.2 Preamble of the 1996 Zapatista Indigenous Forum “We are the people who were ...

394 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA political arena. The culmination of this planning has yielded the current (January 2006) six-month ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 395 Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development(2005), from which we ...

396 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Now he has been elevated to the role of spokesman for all of indigenous Mexico. Even more recently ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 397 Box 10.3 The Zapatista Ideal of Inclusion In a commentary that may one day become fa ...

398 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA Archembault Biazot, a white ex-nun known as “La Coronela” (The Colonel). Of French birth and Canad ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 399 a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy ...

400 UNIT 3 MODERN MESOAMERICA In these independent cells, most of them located in the highlands in areas where there are de fact ...

CHAPTER 10 THE MAYAN ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT 401 (March 1–4, 2001), the spokesperson for the whole of indigenous Mexico. What ex- act ...