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Zapatista - EZLN
Ever since the creation of the Republic of Mexico, the indigenous people have been neglected, mis-treated, and have not been listened to. The first leader to help the natives was Emilio Zapata from 1910-1915. He was an illiterate Mayan who felt that the land needed to be redistrubted and felt that there needed to be more reforms. He rallied the farmers of southern mexico under the slogain, “Land and Liberty”. Since then, the native Mexicans have been given little rights or little more land and began to become disguted with the “unjust and illegitamite” 65 year old Mexican dictatorship run by the PRI.(Institutional Revolutionary Party). On January 1st 1994, a new group calling themselves the Zapatistas(named after the first Mexican revolutionist) declared war on the state of Mexico demanding that land be more equally distributed within the indigounous communities, wealth be more distributed throughout the country, and that the native Mexicans be grant
Approximate Word count = 648
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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