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"Why do we work all year and end up with a loss? Why are we loosing our land? Why is profiting from our hard labor?" (Reiss-Koncar, 1997) The current situation in Chiapas is nothing new; it is rooted in the events of the last 500 years. Anadel Snyder, an American cultural anthropologist who have lived in Mexico for over 40 years and has studied the Zapatistas said this: "It's a repeat of what's been going on for so long. The problems are the same and the same methods of oppression are being used." The indigenous peoples who represent the impoverished majority in Chiapas are the decedents of the Mayan empire which flourished between aprox. O-900 A.D. ? In 1516, the Spanish Conquistadors landed in Mexico and conquered it, defeating the Ind

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