Zapatista Army of National Liberation - Customized T-Shirt
The Zapatistas went public on January 1, 1994, the day that the NAFTA went into effect. The initial goal of the EZLN was to instigate a revolution in all of Mexico but as this did not happen, they used their uprising as a platform to call the world's attention to their movement to protest the signing of NAFTA, which the EZLN believed would only intensify the gap between the rich and the poor in Chiapas. The EZLN does not demand independence from Mexico, but rather aut my, asking (among other things) that the natural resources that are extracted from Chiapas benefit more directly the people of Chiapas. The EZLN opposes corporate globalization in the neoliberalist sense, arguing that it severely and negatively affects the peasant way of life of its indigenous support base and oppressed people worldwide.
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