EZLN and Marcos: What is the main contribution of Zapatismo to Mexico 25 years after its armed uprising?

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In more than two decades the EZLN survived fences established by the Army, the attack of paramilitary groups and the disinterest of the authorities.
But they also made contributions to the political and social life of the country, experts agree.
One of the most important is that it forced many Mexicans to recognize the marginalization, racism and abandonment suffered by the original peoples of the country.
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"The Zapatista rebellion managed to put the indigenous issue on the media and political agenda," says Adriana Aguayo, a researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University.
"He gave a space for discussion on the relationship of the State with indigenous society and the rights of indigenous peoples."

Prior to January 1, 1994, most of the country's indigenous communities lived in conditions of marginalization, or even extreme poverty.
Although the situation of some has been improved, the main advance is that the right of indigenous peoples to choose their forms of government is legally recognized.
There is also greater respect for their own culture and justice systems.
Part of that was possible because of the struggle of the Zapatista movement, experts agree.
In Mexico, after the Mexican Revolution that ended in 1915, "a process of miscegenation was deepened," explains Néstor García Canclini, a researcher at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana.
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There was a policy of relatively forced integration into a single predominant language, Spanish, with a system of schooling and very unequal incorporation into the labor market.
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The EZLN made more visible the role of indigenous peoples, their traditions, their ethical and political forms of self-government, and also to demand that these rights be recognized by the national government.
The researcher Adriana Aguayo agrees. "The Zapatista uprising marked a before and an after in the contemporary history of Mexico, he stresses.
It achieved greater media coverage at national and international level, and this allowed to give greater visibility to the indigenous issue at the social level".
Earrings
In 2001 hundreds of militiamen and some commanders toured several states of the country, as part of a march to demand that the San Andrés Larráinzar Accords be included in the Constitution.
It is a negotiated pact between the federal government and the EZLN command, where the complete autonomy of the indigenous peoples is recognized.

                       
Zapatista commanders spoke in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies to demand that the commitment be fulfilled.
But the Senate of the Republic passed a law that did not contain everything negotiated in 1996, when the Agreements were signed.
"It is a law that is very short and does not satisfy the EZLN or the indigenous peoples, it is one of the pending issues on the national political agenda," says researcher Aguayo.