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saludos camaradas. ha llegado el tiempo de las masas hambrientes, del proletariado explotado, y de nuestro pueblos q han sufrido siglo tras siglo para finalmente tomar lo q es nuestro, y derrocar nuestro enemigo comun.EZLN: Ejercito Zapatista Por La Liberacion nacional.translation: Zapatista Army for National LiberationThe EZLN rose up in arms on January 1st, 1994 the day NAFTA (the North Amerikan Free Trade Agreement) was officailly initiated, seizing towns and cities in the Southern Mexican state of Chiapas, Mexico.The reason: NAFTA would destroy the way of life and communities of the Indigenous people not only of Chiapas, but all of poor Mexicans. NAFTA creates a free trade zone between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Free Trade means that corporations are free to locate their factories in Mexico where they can exploit cheap labor, paying workers wages they could never get away with in the U.S. or Canada. NAFTA then removes the penalty tarrifs for these corporations to sell their finished products in the American markets. NAFTA is simply another example of the corruption of the government and their ambivalence towards the health and well-being of it's people. NAFTA is simply another dagger in the backs of the people.NAFTA altered the article in the Mexican Consitution which garauntees equal land distribution to the people of Mexico, a garauntee that was won in the Revolution of 1917. When Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo signed NAFTA, he effectively reversed the major victory of the revolution and betrayed the poor farmers of Mexico, a country whose people are still largely dependant on the land for survival.and so, the EZLN has taken up arms, shouting YA BASTA! Enough! Enough to the corrupt governments selling the people out, enough to corporations having more rights than citixens, enough to the genocide of free trade. The EZLN took up arms in order to stem of the starvation and slow extermination of their people.They have resorted to arms as a last resort, all other mediums having proven ineffectual; they are responding to a silent war declared on the poor by the corrupt government who implements policies like NAFTA. The Zapatistas are fighting for their rights to land, liberty, shelter, education, healthcare, and a voice in a truly democratic government.Mexico has been under the virtual dictatorship of one political party, the PRI (Partido de Revolucion Institucional: Party of Institutional Revolution), who has proven to have betrayed the ideals of the 1917 revolution. The PRI has monopolized the political process in Mexico, making the functioning of any real democracy impossible.THE RESPONSEthe response from the Mexican government has been a campaign of terrorism and murder. villages of Zapatistas, and villages of Zapatista supporters have been forced out of their homes into the mountains. Packs of armed militia men, supoprted by the Mexican government have murdered many women and children in Chiapas.The Mexican government is one of the most notoriously corrupt governments of the world; they have resorted to terrorist torutre tactics on civilians; many of these torture techniques taught by the the US government to Mexican soldiers in the "School of the Americas," a terrorist trainig school on U.S. soil.U.S. involvement in this human rights violation is not limited to the training of Mexican terrorist soldiers; U.S. corporations, with the help and support of the Clinton administration have been the key providers of arms to the Mexican government and militias.the world's reaction to the Zapatista struggle has been integral to the survival of the peasent peoples in Chiapas. Early on, the Zapatistas made the move to bring their struggle and their condition to the attention of the world through the media and the internet. They publish all thier major communiques and news on their website: http://www.ezln.orgmuch of the fighting and bloodshed has been avoided thanks to the attention and suport of the world media. the Zapatistas have invited reporters from all over the world to speak to them, and to observe the peace process in Chiapas.