The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is celebrating the anniversary of the armed uprising that shook the Mexican status quo. From 12 days of war in 1994 to the failed negotiations with the government, from broken promises to building autonomy, the most iconic anti-globalization guerrilla movement has survived three decades
The seams burst into the air. It was a murmur hidden for years. Centuries of rage, deep in the Lacandon Jungle, in the mountains, the villages, the cornfields. An open secret, cooked over slow fire. The dispossessed, without a decent roof over their heads; without land, without work, without healthcare, without food, without education, without freedom, without rights, without peace, without justice. Nobody expected the uprising, because nobody wanted to listen to them. “Them” being the ones who always died quietly, without a fuss.
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