It’s dark—the kind of profound darkness that a lack of electricity ensures in a mountainous jungle region. A dull pulse carries through the night of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas like an old woman’s heartbeat. It’s 4 a.m., and one can hear what has been a regular soundtrack at this hour for hundreds of years: a steady pounding as… return to article
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Reader Comments (5)Page 1 of 1 pagesThey don’t wear the masks all the time, do they? It’s just when there’s media around, right?
Posted by Phil on Jan 8, 2005 at 8:30 PM In case you were wondering… TGhe mask worn by the Zapatistas is symbolic of the faceless, of the ineffectual, of the forgetten who were left to die, written off by the governemnt as one of the costs of neoliberal globalization. The mask also serves to unite the Zapatistas, who in reality are comprised of a multitude of indigenous peoples, as a nation of common people with the common goals of peace, democracy, food and shelter, education, and independence among other things.
Posted by Dominic on Jan 9, 2005 at 12:47 PM Of course the zapatistas doesn’t wear them all day, however there are a few who often wear them, the members of the “buen gobierno”. Because they have repression to fear and there is constant or almost constant presens of foreigners in the “caracoles” depending much on which. Of course all the zapatistas know each other by face.
Go there, meet them, see for your self and have a good time.
Posted by Joel on Mar 18, 2005 at 3:21 PM Page 1 of 1 pages -
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