Rebelliousness with Dignity, part 1

These are some images from the EZLN travelling around Mexico.

The Zapatista Army for National Liberation are making the 'Another Campaing' in this year of federal elections in the country. In case you are completely alien to the nasty Mexican politics, the Zapatistas are travelling to the different corners of Mexico talking to and with the people in order to generate some consciousness about the pejorative social conditions (as well as political and economic) of the majority of the Mexicans. This, obviously, affects more the lower classes and the indigenous people of Mexico. As a figure, 60 per cent of the Mexican population live under the line of poverty, meaning that they live under impoverished conditions even within the Mexican standards. If you want more information about this I recommend you to read, but not to rely, on the reports from Mexican governmental agencies. I say this because they have invented a way of measuring poverty which has failed to reflect the facts. I also encourage you to read more the work of Julio Bolvitnik, a Chilean academic who has dedicated his life to develop an all-inclusive humane way to measure poverty in Mexico and Latin America.

The Zapatistas main aim is to fight the ill neoliberalism that the Mexican government has been uncapable of challenge for the sake of the Mexicans present and future. Of course the USA has a big role in impeding the little opposition the Mexican state could have over the neoliberalism which is anyway unstopable. Other aim of the EZLN is to unite more people with their already 12 year official struggle for recognition and rights for racial and social inequality and therefore to gain equality in the country. Their proposal can be found in the website:

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/especiales/2/

What the nasty politicians of Mexico do, is to destroy each others' (already bad) reputation; try to co-opt voters; and generally lie to the people with fake campaings about the good things they will never do for the progress of the country and its people.

I'll return with the images later because this computer does not allow me to do so...

The Xinola, reporting far away from the land of the rebels, will return before night falls.