Agrarian crisis and new peasant movement in Mexico: Zapatismo reasons

Abstract

The situation through which the mexican countryside went through in 1993 gave an account of a serious accumulation of problems. Some of them were present long ago but most of them were created due to the recent "land modernization" which began to be carried out in the 1980's and which lead to deep trasnformations in the economic and social structure of the farmland. However, the indigenous rebelion that broke out the 1st of January 1994 in Chiapas has caused a radical change in the display of forces that, according to the author, has to be amplified and reorganised.