The Illness of Hope
or how the Zapatistas are creating a revolution on their terms
"Peasant Indians...began an armed revolt in Chiapas, Mexico, in January 1994 to publicize corruption in local government. They formed the Zapatista National Liberation Army and rebelled again (December 94-February 95)...Zapatistas take their name from the revolutionary Emiliano Zapatista." (http://www.historytoday.com/index.cfm?articleid=3539)
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