América Latina Hoy (Oct 2010)

La narración política del movimiento zapatista The political narrative of the Zapatista Movement

  • Águeda GÓMEZ SUÁREZ

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 33, no. 0
pp. 39 – 62

Abstract

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond;">El presente artículo examina los mensajes y las expresiones políticas generadas por el Movimiento Zapatista, utilizando como unidades de análisis los escritos, declaraciones, cartas, entrevistas y la prosa aparecida en los cuentos literarios. Este movimiento ha logrado ocupar un espacio mediático sin precedentes en la historia de las guerrillas y de los conflictos étnicos mundiales. En este sentido, la autora reflexiona sobre los principales bagajes ideológicos del </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 6.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond;">EZLN </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond;">y sus mensajes políticos a partir de la particularidad y excepcionalidad de su conformación y composición.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">The article examines the messages and political expression of the </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 6.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">EZLN </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">in Mexico, focussing on the political writings, declarations, letters, interviews and prose produced y the Zapatistas. The movement has created an important mediatic presence which has no precedent in the history of guerrilla movements and ethnic conflict elsewhere. The author analyses the principal ideological tenets of the </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 6.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">EZLN </span><span style="font-family: SimonciniGaramond; color: #1c181b; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: SimonciniGaramond; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">and its political message in the context of this particular and exceptional form of political dissemination through discourse analysis.</span></span></p>

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