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19 Fletcher F. World Aff. 71 (1995)
Chiapas: The First Post-Modern Revolution

handle is hein.journals/forwa19 and id is 77 raw text is: CHIAPAS: THE FIRST POST-MODERN REVOLUTION ANA CARRIGAN When we came down from the mountain carrying our rucksacks, our dead and our history we came to the city looking for our country. The country that had forgotten about us in the last corner of the land; the most solitary, the poorest, the dirtiest, the worst. We came to ask this country, our country: Why did you abandon us there for so many, many years? Why did you leave us there with so many of our dead? Subcomandante Marcos in the Cathedral of San Cristobal de las Casas, 22 February 1994. The dirt road leads out of the valley, away from the fertile ranch lands that surround the provincial capital of Ocosingo. It follows the path of a narrow ravine through the foothills, climbing between forests of pine trees, headed eastward for the Lacandon Rainforest, into the area known simply as La Selva - The Jungle. This is the road down which two regiments of the Zapatista Army traveled on the afternoon of 31 December 1993 on their way to attack San Cristobal de las Casas and Ocosingo. In every village they passed as they came down from the mountains, carrying their weapons and their handmade uni- forms concealed in backpacks and coffee sacks, their numbers swelled. Today, some thirty kilometers outside Ocosingo, a row of boulders blocking the road marks the frontier of Zapatista-held territory. Beyond, deep within the valleys and ravines of the rainforest, sheltered by mountain ranges that loom as impenetrable as a wall, lies the Maya world. Last January, the international press, among them many veterans of the Central American conflicts of the 1980s, came to these Indian territories looking for the past - and found the future. When the twelve-day shooting war between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Mexican National Army abruptly ended, the rebel spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, began a dialogue with the Mexican people through the pages of the national press that circumvented the government's best efforts to contain the Zapatistas in their jungle habitat. It became quickly Ana Carrigan is a Colombian-Irish journalist, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy, and Salvador Witness; her films include Roses in December.

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