But there is a strong sense of primordial right to the land based on tenure and working it. With the end of what little constitutional rights were promised, there was only one choice possible - armed resistance. It was not the first time this had to be done, it will not be the last. The people of Chiapas will use any media-system to speak for dialogue, and to push the PRI party out of the loop. Jun. 1, 1995.
Nothing seems to work.
They are a fundamentalist right-wing party, a Jurassic party. For the Zapatistas, this means things are going from bad to worse. Collaboration has always been part of the process that the Zapatistas have worked with. According to the Zapatistas, this question is about the necessary pre-conditions for peaceful political struggle. The lack of these conditions obliges citizens to take up the clandestine and illegal struggle, or adopt skepticism and apathy.