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Pro-Zapatista and Pro-PRI: Resolving the Contradictions of Zapatismo in Rural Oaxaca

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Lynn Stephen
Lynn Stephen*
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Northeastern University
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Emiliano Zapata could well be named “man of the decade” for the 1990s in Mexico, despite the fact that he has been dead for more than seventy years. His legacy, along with the revolution he represents, has been writ large in Mexican political culture. But whose version of Zapata has been enshrined? Is he the figure inspiring the agrarian reforms introduced by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to end the government's obligation to redistribute land to the rural poor? Or is he the sacred symbol of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional's armed rebellion calling for elimination of those same reforms? How can Zapata be all these things to all these groups simultaneously? Conversely, how can any single person or group endorse both sets of cultural-political meanings that have attached to Zapata when they appear to contradict one another directly?

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , 1997 , pp. 41 - 70
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Copyright © 1997 by the University of Texas Press

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Research for this article was supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Ejido Reform Project of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, and the National Science Foundation. I wish to thank Gil Joseph, Jeffrey Rubin, and the anonymous LARR reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article.

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