Zapatista Uprising || The Chiapas Conflict

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Carlos Salinas de Gortari was elected president of Mexico in 1988, and while he promised to utilize government funding to assist poor states of the south of mexico, residents and more important the Indigenous Community never saw the money promised by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The catalyst for the EZLN's decision to revolt was the 1991 revision of Article 27 in Mexico's 1917 revolutionary constitution. Under Article 27, Native communal landholdings or "ejidos" were protected from sale or privatization. With the removal of Article 27, Native farmers feared the loss of their remaining lands and cheap imports from the US. In the year before the rebellion, the EZLN designated Subcomandante Marcos as the ideological leader of the uprising and also made plans to declare war on the state of Mexico. EZLN declared war on the Mexican state on January 1, 1994 to protest NAFTA's implementation.
This conflict was an attempt to assert the voices of those who were never heard by the government, a conflict forgotten by an entire country.

I tried my best with the limited material about this conflict. Thanks for wacthing

Song Used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCUHHyRwViU
Video Sources: local television documentaries