Echoes of Yesterday in the Zapatista communities: Fernandez de Lizardi and Ignacio Ramirez
From the Reform period to the Porfiriato, indigenous groups struggled against the power of the government. Usually they were defeated (genocide). A capitalist system denied indigenous customs, culture, language and communal ownership of the land. The government forced them to assimilate and to becom...
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Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rel/article/view/49226 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-047&d=article49226oai |
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| Sumario: | From the Reform period to the Porfiriato, indigenous groups struggled against the power of the government. Usually they were defeated (genocide). A capitalist system denied indigenous customs, culture, language and communal ownership of the land. The government forced them to assimilate and to become civilized (ethnocide). Amid a system of oppression, there has always been someone who struggled for justice. Today the Zapatista movement and others indigenous organizations echo that struggle and they have turned into a shinning light for others. |
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