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redfish on Twitter: "27 years ago today the Zapatista Uprising began when the EZLN declared war on the Mexican government from the Lacandona jungle in Chiapas, Mexico. https://t.co/w2QF0vhjCB" / Twitter
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Zapatistas and followers of the Zapatista movement wait to enter the area for 20th anniversary celebration of the armed indigenous insurgency in Oventic December 31, 2013. Twenty years after Marcos led armed
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