Chapas Conflict

The Zapatistas lived in a flourishing culture in the early 19th century until the North American Trade Agreement when it was placed in 1994 in order for us to trade between Canada, United States, and Mexico. The Zapatistas were trying to get health care, education and control over their land because they had been the lowest in the social order. They wear ski mask and anything in order to completely cover their face except their eyes. The main struggle of the people who live in Chiapas is the fact that they never really got the things a person needs in their regular lifestyles.

Throughout history the American settlers and their following descendants continuously sought land and power; because of this many other countries and peoples fell to the unyielding force. Manifest destiny pushed them to take land that was deemed to be rightfully theirs regardless of who was standing on it, who was living on it. This continued in the journey west and the encounter with the Mexican border. During the time of 1850 to 1900, those who identified as Mexicans and Mexican Americans began to face very difficult and challenging times. In the United States’ determination for land, the Mexican communities were altered in their economical, political, and social lives

My initial thoughts of the Zapatista movement were that it was a good cause and organized, but the war tactics were not favorable to me. I was not for the violent approaches that they took to get the Industrial Revolution Party ruled government. I think that violence is doesn’t help

As the same happened the of the pueblo revolt of 1680. The entire thing that the historian's point out the there are a great deal of circumstances that would make the pueblos revolt. Henry Warner Bowden argues that religion what the primary cause for he pueblos to unite and over throw the Spaniard regime of the southwest. Historian Ramon A. Gutierrez points out that it was the skillful Franciscans who where at first ale to manipulate the Pueblos in to taking the new religion, but after time the pueblos lost interest and where no longer amused by the new religion that was forced upon them. According to Van Hasting Garner the reason that the pueblos took up arm is due the immediate events that happened in that era for example; drought, famine and the apache raids of the 1670's. New Mexican priest Angelico Chaves points out that the reason for the pueblo revolt of 1680 that the actions of Doming Naranjo, a mixed Indian created a stir united the pueblos and created the Revolt. The last argument in the book made by Andrew L. Knaut is the reason for the pueblos revolt of 1680 is that It was just the right time since the pueblos had been resentful towards the Spaniard and with in time the Spaniards lost their ability to keep the pueblos intimidated.

Many times, these Chicanos were pushed off their lands and forced to try and survive elsewhere. “I owned land as far as the eye could see under the Crown of Spain, and I toiled on my earth and gave my Indian sweat and blood for the Spanish master who ruled tyranny over man and beast and all that he could trample. But… THE GROUND WAS MINE.” This is what life was like before the Spanish-American War and before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This was life before Chicanos were pushed off their land because Anglos fought the documents in court. This is before the treaty that was supposed to protect their rights fell through. This is when life was hard, but it was a life they knew and a struggle they lived with. Although Chicanos have endured many struggles, this is one they want to fight for.

Mexicans have been a people long oppressed. That is evident not only by the readings edited by Zaragosa Vargas in Major Problems in Mexican American History, but also by the the documentary Chicano!. The Mexicans’ past is underscored by conquest of the present-day American Southwest first by the Spanish and then by the United States following the Mexican American War. With other countries establishing control over them, Mexicans have never really been able to establish themselves. Efforts were repeatedly made to shape them into what others perceived them to be. The language they should speak, the religion they should practice, the things they should learn, and the way they should live, were all

The revolution in 1836, “introduced new ways of doing things, a new language, and a new socioeconomic and political order” (p. 169). Americans always believing in their white race superiority, brought with them a clear racism sentiment, seeing dark skinned people as inferior.As a consequence of these racist ideas, “Harassment and persecution appeared as daily occurrence” for Tejanos people simple because, “they were Mexicans” (p. 170). The abuse was extreme that many Texans decided to flee with their families to other states in Mexico. Then, Squatter occupied the land left behind, invading Texas and the Anglos increasingly invaded the state of Texas until arriving at a point of consider “banishing Tejanos form the Republic” (170). Another conflict point was that Mexican-Tejanos were always against slavery, but for the Americans, slavery was an essential part of their economy. Tejanos frequently help slaves to scape to Mexico; then, as a way to avoid this situation, “The town of Seguin drafted resolutions prohibiting Mexican peons from entering the country and forbidding Mexicans to associate with blacks” (p. 171). In other words, Mexicans would not have the right stay in the land, which for years, belonged to Mexico. Discrimination was getting worse, and Tejanos continued to lose their land, persecuted for crimes they did not commit, and often executed without a reason. The truth was, “These violent attacks were but an extreme form of racism that frequently surfaced in every day affairs”

During the 1910s, the Mexican Revolution occurred in Mexico causing a wave of Mexican immigration to the United States. In the 1920s, Mexican immigration continued to grow in the United States in search of job opportunities. The agricultural work Mexican immigrants undertook benefited economies of the border states in particular: Texas, Arizona, and California. While some Americans recognized the Mexican’s contribution to the agricultural and industrial expansion of Western states, some did not appreciate the Mexicans living in the United States. These Americans believed that Mexicans should only live in the United States temporarily, that they would ruin the American race, and that they were irresponsible people.

During the 1970’s, Mexican Americans were involved in a large social movement called the "Chicano movement." Corresponding with the great development of the black civil rights movement, Mexican Americans began to take part in a series of different social protests in which they demanded equal rights for themselves. Composed mainly of Mexican American students and youth, these activists focused on maintaining a pride for their culture as well as their ethnicity to fuel their political campaign. Left out of this campaign initially though were Mexican immigrants.

refusal to take money from the mal gobierno (bad government).? In addition, the Zapatistas have created five organizational centers (caracoles) and established Juntas of Good Government in each of them in order to ?resolve conflicts and disequilibrium between the centers and the outlying autonomies.? The caracoles mark the EZLN?s first success with regional, as opposed to municipal, autonomy. These Zapatista achievements can be attributed to the local terrain of Chiapas, restrictive legislation, and local and national scrutiny.

The movement protested the restoration of land grants that were taken away from them. Mexican Americans tried to claim back land that was taken away from them in the 1960s. Their actions were based on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This treaty was signed by the Unites States as well as Mexico in 1848. This treaty ended the Mexican war. This treaty signed over land to the United States. It was also said that Mexican who were already owners of land would be able to keep it. This was to respect the land grants that they already had. This did not happen and Mexicans lost their land. Those who decided that they were going to stay in the territory that was going to be taken over by the United States were told that they would become United States citizens, and they would gain all the rights of the citizenship. They wanted their land back, so they could build a society of their own where they had control.

Mexicans, even before the turn of the 19th century, revolted against the unfair treatment that they were receiving. Some, like the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PML), went as far as writing about the problems they were dealing with in the United States but most were unsuccessful (Acuna 163). The fight for freedom did not stop there, in the 19th century came the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). The Mexicans were fighting for things like education for their

Different groups had very different goals for what the Mexican revolution would accomplish. The rural peasants and indigenous people wanted the land to be taken out of the hands of the aristocracy or the elite and have the land be evenly divided between the rural towns. They wanted the territory of their ancestors back because it had been stripped from them during the regime of Porfirio Diaz. They also wanted to be taken out of poverty and to have farming available to them again so that they could sustain their lives and work for their living. Therefore, because the peasants were suffering under the regime of Diaz, they wholeheartedly supported the revolution and everything that came with it. The Roman Catholic Church,

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The pattern of companies recruiting Mexican workers and those workers being deported, and the blatant racism present in America, including actions by the US government laid the foundation for the Mexican Struggle. The people who exploited Mexican workers began by propagating specific stereotypes that were to their favor. These corporations insinuated that Mexicans were genetically made for the kind of work which they were being given. The spreading of these stereotypes played a significant role in the Mexican American reception of Mexican Immigrants. They didn’t want to be associated with the negative ideas being spread around about Mexicans. Thus, they took shelter in their American citizenship and before long, they too were rallying for the same immigration restrictions.