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Zapatista uprising

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On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) coordinated a 12-day uprising in the state of Chiapas, Mexico in protest of the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The rebels occupied cities and towns in Chiapas, releasing prisoners and destroying land records. After battles with the Mexican Army and police, a ceasefire was brokered on January 12. Around 300 people were killed.

Zapatista uprising - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1994 uprising in Mexico by the Zapatistas This article is about the 1994 revolt in Chiapas, Mexico. For the overarching conflict in Chiapas, see Chiapas conflict . For Emiliano Zapata's faction in the Mexican Revolution, see Liberation Army of the South . You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish . (October 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translat

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