A Place Called Chiapas

A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of firsthand accounts of the Ejrcito Zapatista de Liberacin Nacional EZLN the Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southwestern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army.

The nationalist EZLN insurrection arose in response to the NAFTAinduced dollarization, and consequent further impoverishment, of Mexicos economy the NAFTA did not provide wage increases or prices decreasescitation needed . Thus, according to the documentary, Chiapass indigenous Maya people said Basta Enough, we will take ourselves underground and wait to rise up, like corn. In Mayan traditional lore, the Maya are the people born from maize.citation needed In 1994, the EZLNs indigenous Chiapanec soldiers marched from the jungle to the towns in armed insurrection to reclaim their land from the elite ruling minority. Thus did the Mexicans of the national Capital and of the provincial states awaken to a New Year 1994 loud with AK47 gunfire. The EZLN seized six hundred and fifty private ranches that had displaced the native Chiapanecs afterwards, they controlled a fourth of Chiapas. ........

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