Carlos posing as EZLN-Ejericito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ( Zapatista National Liberation Army)

Photographer: Carlos y Amber
From: San Cristobal de las Casas
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Carlos posing as EZLN-Ejericito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional ( Zapatista National Liberation Army)

On the day of NAFTA's intiation (January 1, 1994), this previously leftist guerilla army emerged from the forests to occupy San Cristobal and other towns in the state of Chiapas. Linking anti-globalization rhetoric with Mexican revolutionary slogans their declared goal was to overturn a wealthy local oligarchy's centuries-old hold on land, resources and power and to improve the wretched living standards of Mexico's indigenous people.