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Article: Why did Chiapas revolt? (uprising in Chiapas, Mexico) (Cover Story)
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- June 3, 1994
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In Mexico's state of Chiapas, the resistance to economic development without social development has found a popular voice. It is the voice of a Mayan peasant force, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), which appeared in San Cristobal de las Casas and a handful of other places in Chiapas on January 1, 1994. In their Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle, which accompanied their appearance, the EZLN wrote:
We are the product of 500 years of struggle: first against
slavery, in the war of independence against Spain, then
to escape being absorbed by North American expansion....
we have nothing to lose, absolutely nothing, no ...