By Rodolfo Stavenhagen. Chiapas is Mexico’s biggest and most important “unfinished business”. It expresses the deep social contradictions that national development policies have generated over the last four decades or so (aggravated enormously by neoliberal globalization). Indians (15% of the Mexican population) have been historically short-changed. Economic development has passed them by. Despite official rhetoric to the contrary, Indians are the eternally excluded in social, economic and political terms...

By Mariana Mora. This essay is a reflection on a decade of struggle by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. By providing snapshots of important political gatherings that have taken place nationally, as well as by providing ethnographic accounts of political practices in the EZLN autonomous municipalities, the author highlights what she considers to be key political interventions of the Zapatista movement.