ID: 901001710 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001710	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Zapatista uprising (Mexican history, 1994)

Note: Initial confrontation during which native Mayan guerillas from the Chiapas highlands occupied government buildings in San Crist$00bal de las Casas and declared war on the Mexican state. Planned to coincide with the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the conflict was part of a continuing struggle for land reforms and the plight of Mexico's indigenous populations.

Display Date: 1-12 January 1994

Names:

	Zapatista uprising (Mexican history, 1994) (preferred,t,English-P,D,P)
	Levantamiento zapatista (Mexican history, 1994) (o,Spanish-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........Mexican history (P)
		............Zapatista uprising (Mexican history, 1994) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... rebellion
	.....(political events, cultural events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	originated in .... San Cristóbal de Las Casas
	.....(Chiapas, Mexico, North and Central America) (TGN)

Sources:

	Zapatista uprising (Mexican history, 1994)
	................Collier and Quaratiello, Basta! (2005) 15
	................Hayden, The Zapatista Reader (2002) 46
	................Tulchin and Seele, Mexico's Politics and Society in Transition (2003) 113
	Levantamiento zapatista (Mexican history, 1994)
	................Muñoz and Rodríguez, La sociedad mexicana Vol. 2 (2001) 452
	................Zermeño, La sociedad derrotada (2001) 159
	................Assies and Gundermann, Movimientos indígenas (2007) 199

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Collier and Quaratiello, Basta! (2005) 15
	................ Hayden, The Zapatista Reader (2002) 45
	................ Carmack, Gasco, and Gossen, Legacy of Mesoamerica (2016) 405