Zapatistas in Cyberspace

IV. Archives

  1. ANTHAP
  2. Chiapas95
  3. Chiapas-l
  4. EZLN Page
  5. Melel Xojobal News Synthesis Archives
  6. Mexico News Archive
  7. Brazilian EZLN Archive

ANTHAP

(http://anthap.oakland.edu/anthap1/Chiapas_News_Archive/)

The Applied Anthropology Computer Network has a web page with links to the "Chiapas News Archive". This is the archive of a listserv set up by anthropologists and sociologists in 1993 mainly to exchange information and views about the abrogation of Article 27 of the Mexican constitution - ending collective land ownership by Mexican peasants - carried out by Carlos Salinas and aimed at the final enclosure of the Mexican countryside. The listserv was active at the moment of the Zapatista uprising and a great deal of early infomation about those events was posted to it. The archive contains material from the period January 1994 to April 1995.

Chiapas95

(http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html)

The postings to this list (which began in early December 1994) have been placed in archives in chronological order in monthly and then weekly folders for easy access. Separate folders have been created for regrouped sets of postings, such as EZLN Communiques, articles on Cholera in Mexico, Tales of Durito, the travails of Radio Huayacocotla, an index of reg.mexico postings on PeaceNet, a set of postings about the infamous Chase Manhattan memo and subsequent anti-Chase activities, postings on the Zapatistas in cyberspace, a collection on the peso crisis of late 1994 and 1995, a set of postings on the struggles in Tabasco, and a set of postings in a debate on the economy and its transcendence. These collections have all been assembled as by-products of particular research projects and have been regrouped and made available to simplify the work of others. For the period August 1994 to November 1995, this is the most complete collection of EZLN Communiques available on the Internet. For the period before that, consult the book Zapatistas! For the period after that see the EZLN Page.

Chiapas-L

(http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/chiapas-l)

These archives of the list chiapas-l contain only material dating from August 1994 and later. The earlier archived materials are off-line but still existent --I hope. I have sent a note to the list owner enquiring about their availability and will revise this if and when I obtain the information.

EZLN Page

Image of Zapata and words Ya Basta!(http://www.ezln.org/documentos/index.html)

The EZLN Page contains an extremely useful collection of EZLN Communiques for the whole period from January 1, 1994 to the present. It is not complete but it does contain a great many important communiques and it has them in html format, primarily in Spanish with some English and German.

Melel Xojobal News Synthesis

outline ofChiapas with two indigenous faces face to face talking (http://www.laneta.apc.org/melel/WEB_LUZ/MELEL_PRINCIPAL_c.html)

The organization Melel Xojobal produces a regular newsleter aimed at indigenous communities called Melel Xojobal News Synthesis that summarizes daily news reports from local and national newspapers. The newsletters are archived on the group's web site.

Mexico News Archive

Posada image of revolutionary soldier/skeleton(http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/mxarch.html)

This page, maintained by Molly Molloy at the New Mexico State University Library, provides the same kind of information as this section of this page, i.e., links to various archives of information on Mexico. It's coverage is broader than Chiapas and the Zapatistas but there is considerable overlap.

Brazilian EZLN Archive

entrance to intercontinental encounter with image of Zapata and letters EZLN (http://www.chiapas.hpg.ig.com.br/index.html#)

This is a Brazilian web site that has archived quite a few EZLN Communiques through 2001 translated into Portuguese. It also contains a detailed chronology through 1997.