Twenty Years of the Struggle of the Ejército Zapatista de

Voices And Context
Twenty Years of the Struggle of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación
Nacional (Some of their contributions)
Carlos Humberto Durand Alcántara1
Marcos Daniel Silva Maldonado
Abstract:
After twenty years of their insurrection, this paper is aimed to set the socio-political
importance of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) in the regional
and national scenery, its influence in the "indigenous reform" at the continental level,
as well as its contributions to the field of the fight for a more fair and democratic
country. Of singular importance in the definition of the neo Zapatista conception are its
epistemological and cultural definitions (in the mayan
context), and its ethics based on the principles based in the actions of the social
majority.
Keywords: Social movements, zapatismo, indigenous peoples, social law, human rights.
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E-mail: carloshdurand@yahoo.com.mx
Iberofórum. Revista de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Iberoamericana.
Año IX, No. 18. Julio-Diciembre de 2014. Carlos Humberto Durand Alcántara y
Marcos Daniel Silva Maldonado. pp. 100-117. ISSN: 2007-0675.
Universidad Iberoamericana A.C., Ciudad de México. www.uia/iberoforum