Brief history of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Abstract

The present article makes a brief historical reconstruction of the EZLN movement, analyzing three stages: 1) the organization process and the indigenous movement politization of Lacandona forest, the Altos and the north region of Chiapas at the end of the eighty’s and the result f this meeting, and 3) the January raising on 1994 and the EZLN attempts to understand the Mexican civil society response respect its cause, and look for ways and procedures link both in the construction of a real civil and political movement.