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CrimethInc. : Getting There : The Road to the Zapatista Encuentro

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In the following account, a CrimethInc. agent describes a series of adventures on the road to the 2024 Zapatista Encuentro, a gathering celebrating thirty years since the uprising that established an autonomous zone in Chiapas. Tomorrow, we will follow up with more reporting from the encuentro itself. The banner in the above photograph welcomes people to the Zapatista encuentro, reading, “Land belonging to no one. Land belonging to all. Here we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the armed uprising against forgetting, against death, against destruction.” “It would be safest if you went with the caravan.” “The caravans always fall apart.” We were asking about how to get to the Zapatistas’ New Year’s encuentro. Whether we asked at the anarchist social center, around the autonomous Panchos 1 neighborhood in Mexico City, or by emailing the contacts listed on the Zapatista website, we always received one—or both—of these replies. A gathering in rebel territory is always something special, bu

In the following account, a CrimethInc. agent describes a series of adventures on the road to the 2024 Zapatista Encuentro, a gathering celebrating thirty years since the uprising that established an autonomous zone in Chiapas. Tomorrow, we will follow up with more reporting from the encuentro itself. The banner in the above photograph welcomes people to the Zapatista encuentro, reading, “Land belonging to no one. Land belonging to all. Here we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the armed uprising against forgetting, against death, against destruction.” Getting There “It would be safest if you

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