Comandanta Ramona
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Comandanta Ramona was a Tzotzil indigenous officer and commander of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of
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Zapatista uprising
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On 1 January 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation coordinated a 12-day uprising in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, in protest against the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Comandanta Ramona
…indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She led the Zapatista Army into San Cristóbal de las Casas during the Zapatista uprising of 1994, and was the first Zapatista to appear publicly in Mexico City. She was one of the most important public figures during the first stages of the…
Reporter photographing a rebel shortly after the uprising.
EZLN soldiers in 1996.