Peace Talks, But No Peace
Shortly after the 1994 New Year rebellion, the Zapatistas and the government negotiated a cease-fire. Four years later, Chiapas has ...
Election Day in Chiapas: A Low-Intensity War
That morning, in an act of military precision, ten Zapatista sympathizers drove into San Andras, jumped onto the kiosk where ...
Mexico: Lacandon Selva Conflict Grows
The Cessna bush plane takes off from Ocosingo, where the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico slope down to the Lacandon Selva—the ...
The Escalation of the War in Chiapas
The massacre at Acteal last December was not an accidental or isolated event. In fact, it was a carefully planned ...
Time of the Snails: Autonomy and Resistance in Chiapas
The people of Nuevo San Isidro watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven ...
Bio “Gold” Rush in Chiapas on Hold
The road from the airport at Tuxtla Gutiérrez to San Cristóbal in Chiapas, Mexico wends its way from balmy tropics ...
The Lessons of Acteal
The Zapatistas have touched a raw nerve in a political system that once seemed unshakable, prompting a military and paramilitary ...
The Zapatistas at Ten
With their rubber boots slapping at the slick cobblestones and faces hooded by mists and masks, they seemed like ghosts ...
