Chiapas, Zapatistas, and the "M" Word.

As of this writing the armed phase of the Zapatista insurgency is well into its third year. The Government of Mexico continues to negotiate, offer concrete concessions, and pump unprecedented amounts of federal money into Chiapas and neighboring states. Yet the EZLN refuses to give up their arms and join the political process. why Because the insurgents are not, nor were they ever, interested in political compromise. They seek total power and their means to this end is protracted politico-military warfare relying on the time-tested Maoist model. That is to say, the present-day Mexican insurgents are Zapatistas in name only.