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Story Publication logo February 16, 2019

25 Years of the Zapatista Movement

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"Populated the 24th of December. Land Recovered through the blood of our fallen compañeros of the EZLN" [the Spanish acronym for the Zapatista National Liberation Army]. Image by Jared Olson. Mexico, 2018.
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An army of campesinos armed with little but words, a social movement, and a radical democratic...

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Tracey Eaton, then a correspondent for the Dallas Morning News, reported on the Zapatistas, black-masked rebels, who briefly revolted against the Mexican government in 1994. Jared Olson reported on them nearly a quarter of a century later, in summer 2018, two decades into their experiment of autonomous self-organization and non-violent resistance. Together, they share experiences with the movement as well as insights into their ramifications for Mexican society, political change, and the nature of social movements.

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