Abstract

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Highlights

  • This struggle has taken two main routes

  • Started in April 1995, between representatives of the EZLN and a negotiating committee formed by the Mexican government, the COCOPA (Comisión por la Concordia y la Pacificación)

  • The San Andrés Accords were signed on 16 February 1996, after a long and difficult process involving months of consultation in several rounds and hundreds of advisors, both academics and indigenous leaders (Hernández Navarro 1998)

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Summary

Gemma van der Haar

Ten years ago in January 1994, the masked rebels of the EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) headed by Subcomandante Marcos shook Mexico and the world. The Zapatistas became the symbol for the indigenous cause and in the years following, they developed into central protagonists in the struggle for indigenous rights and autonomy. The first concerned the strengthening of indigenous rights through legal reform This went from the negotiations between the EZLN and the government on ‘Indigenous Rights and Culture’, which resulted in the San Andrés Accords, on to the battle to have the agreements translated to the legal plane. This long and difficult process ended in deception for the Zapatistas and for Mexico’s indigenous movement in general, with the passing of a very limited legal reform in April 2001. It recently (August 2003) received a new impulse with the formation of the so-called Juntas de Buen Gobierno, bodies coordinating the autonomous municipalities

The San Andrés Accords
The struggle for legal reform
The issue of indigenous autonomy generated heated debates and a prolonged
Autonomous municipalities
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