So we do not forget and may the dream come life; 30 years later…

The declarationes of the lacandona jungle of the zapatista army of national liberation

Abstract

What a large part of Mexican society had experienced in its social and political organizational processes until the 1980s was to try to build spaces for active social participation in the constitution of Political Actors outside the frameworks of electoral “formal politics.” and in that wave of movements in Mexican society were the political parties, very far away, not only from the organizational processes, but also from social reality.

The declaration of the Lacandona Jungle, which is the way in which the Zapatista National Liberation Army makes itself known politically, on January 1, 1994, is a Declaration of political “intentions,” rather than a declaration of war; It is, to a certain extent, in its speech and action, the synthesis of the entire historical revolutionary movement; since its genesis, it has sought its own transformation from civil society and not from armed groups or political parties and real democracy.

Zapatismo's ability to read the political, social and economic situation in Mexico, and that in more than 30 years of life, they are outside of all political parties, shows in public light the conditions in which the people live. indigenous peoples and communities, a reality made invisible by the Mexican State and by a part of society, a debate that remains pending, not only within the Mexican constitution and its institutional “operators” but also in Mexican society itself, and their desirable actions accordingly.