The Revolt of Dignity The Zapatista Movement in Chiapas

On January 1 1994 thousands of indigenous people occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas under the slogan Ya Basta Enough occupied seven towns in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas For two weeks the Zapatistas who named themselves after the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata fought armed against the government which had only contempt or violence for them