The Other Campaign: The Zapatista Call for Change from Below - Tapa blanda

Since emerging as armed insurgency group from Mexico's Lacandon Jungle in 1994, the Zapatistas have constantly shifted their strategic focus in response to changing political conditions in Mexico. Their latest initiative is the Other Campaign, so named to indicate their opposition to and disdain for the Presidential electoral politics happening at

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos describes himself as the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Marcos says: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel...Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, 'Enough'! Luis Hernandez Navarro is a political commentator, author, and senior editor of the Mexican daily newspaper, La Jornada.