Mexico's Treatment Of The Zapatista Revolutionaries

            Mexico's Treatment of the Zapatista Revolutionaries.
             The EZLN(Zapatista National Liberation Army) members get their name from the.
             revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata who fought in the Mexican Revolution {1910-1921},73.
             years ago.The remebrance of Emiliano Zapata has faded into the history books . The people who.
             heired to the betrayers of Zapata are headed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party and.
             President Ernesto Zedillo. Now, the heirs to Zapata have come back to claim what is rightfully.
             theirs, which are the rights of having their own land, fair voting rights, and the right to equal.
             representation within political affairs.
             The EZLN is established among the indigenous people who live in and around the jungle.
             in Lacondona, east of the high plains of Chiapas. Chiapas is a very poor area. 41% of the.
             population has no running water. 34.9% don't have electricity. 63% of the people live in one.
             room houses for large families. 19% of the labour force doesn't have income and 67% of the.
             labour force live on only minimum wage. Article 27 promises Land Reform in the constitution,.
             yet nothing has changed here. Northern Mexico has developed factories and has become more.
             industrialized, while in the south, it has been left a wilderness. The EZLN fears that NAFTA.
             (North America Free Trade Agreement will keep Chiapas more isolated and inderdeveloped. The.
             Zapatista area has around 32 rebel groups who refuse to acknowledge the Mexican or local.
             government. They send representatives to the council that is in charge of organizing the.
             rebellion, the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Commitee. This is organized through a.
             delegate based democracy. Its made up of delegates of from each town. Its responsible for the.
             politics and organization of the EZLN and its highest power. .
             "So we decided that there is no way other than to organize and rise up like this in armed.
             struggle. So we began to organize ourselbes like that, secretly, in a revolutionary organization.