Jul 19 - Among the Zapatistas Las Margaritas - La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico 22:00 Today I feel a little bit sad. I invested so much effort to come that close to the main Zapatista base and Zapatistas didn't accept me. The man in charge told me, an hour ago to head back from where I came from. Zapatism is a guerila movement, established in January, 1995 that protects the rightsof the indigenous indians, that has been, as they say, exploited and suppresed since Cristopher Columbus stepped on this ground. They are a group of indigenous Indians, proud on their roots, that want to warn the world that their culture and nature where they live is dissapearing in the grip of greedy capitalism. "Ya basta!" - We've had it enough!, they said in 1994 and declared the
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