The Zapatistas movement

The Zapatistas movement is a very strong display of mobilization and creating spaces for marginalized groups in a society and creating effective change on a governmental level. This is a movement that played a huge part in expanding indigenous rights and their recognition in the Mexican society. Though the discrimination and violation of human’s rights for the indigenous population in Chiapas still remain, the movement has made some gateway for the population. The figure if subcamandante Marcos is represents a form of political resistance that transcended different time and spaces. Thus, “Juxtaposed with the descriptions of an oppressive structure of class, values, and of the political machinery that holds it all in place, Marcos offers a window into the indigenous world that sits at the bottom of the heap, and at the heart of the nation. Using simple, direct, parabolic language that alludes to Mayan deities and the Popol Vuh, Marcos insists that political issues are human rights issues, while creating a consciousness of indigenous Mexico and a place for it in the political and social parlance of present-day Mexico” (p. 25). This movement and his figure are a political performance that keeps the ideas in place to continue a revolution, while creating a new outlook of what is currently transpiring in these areas. The testimonials and building the movement has transcended into modern movements, both with physical manifestations and the digital. Creating a counter response to political protests is a historical change that will further the movement and never losing sight of the task at hand. Therefore, “And I think the Zapatistas were at the lead of really thinking the poetics of real bodies and electronic bodies in contestation, in invention, and walking towards a utopia that we can’t really define, but perhaps we’ll know it when we get there so anti-anti-utopian in a certain sense” (Dominguez). The influence will always be there, and the perspective may change and create new ways to invoke change.