Mexico Travel Guía

In 1994, unknown lefts guerrillas until now, it occupied the city of St Kitts of The Houses: the EZN (Zapatista army of National Liberation). Its target: depojar the oligarchy of the ground and to manage the resources that this one generates, as well as to claim the rights of the indigenous peoples méxicanos.

The army evicted the zapatistas but many sheltered in the forest Lacandona, where from they threw its ideas marked by a strong feeling antiglobalizador. Its charismatic leader is subcommander Marcos, about whom its real identity is not known yet.

Theoretically zapatistas and governmental they came to an agreement on the rights of the peoples native in San Andrés. But the government never ratified it and Between 1997 and 1998, Chiapas lived through a tension epoch, being the massacre of Acteal the clash more sanginario of all, where paramilitary of the PRI they killed 45 natives. In the area, tension is still breathed.

At present, in some recondite areas, we find communities zapatistas, like that of Oventik. It is a question of a real people where the natives live together. Here there are shops, fields to cultivate and also a school.

Normally there are a closed community, where hardly the tourists can gain access. Nevertheless, and always depending on the humor in which they are this day, sometimes they accept visits. To enter, better with someone who knows the area (in St Kitts there exist some guides who, far from presenting it like a tourist visit, offer you the possibility of going up to the community and of proving luck). Normally you must take passport or some type of papers since if not, although you catch them in a cheerful mood, you will remain out. And you do not scare when you see that they all, absolutely all, walk with handkerchiefs in the face or with

balaclava. They are out of the Law and must protect its identity. Also it is a question of a people that looks very much at the persons who want to enter and who watch much what they say. Because of course, once inside, they will explain to you the motives for which they fight and live in the community. Of course, almost they cannot speak Spanish since they speak indigenous, unintelligible languages for us.

It is a question of an excellent form of knowing the problems and worries of this culture, alienated by the Mexican government.