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Zapatistas: ‘nation-state under attack’
April 15, 2026
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Mexico's Zapatista rebels—who have observed a long ceasefire but still have a zone of control in the back-country of Chiapas state—held an international gathering in the highland city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Featured speaker was a ski-masked Captain Marcos, presumably the same charismatic spokesman once known as Subcommander Marcos. He delivered an exegesis entitled A Peephole into the Storm in the World: Nation-States Under Attack (Una mirilla a la Tormenta en el Mundo: Los Estados-Nación bajo ataque).
Marcos portrayed a supra-national imperialism under Donald Trump, in which the nation-state has no decision-making power. Marcos decried the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, and the US oil blockade on Cuba, noting that Mexico has been effectively barred from shipping oil to the Caribbean island nation. He also asserted that in the US-Israeli war against Iran, the big oil companies are the ones who benefit, as the price of oil rises. That's what needs to be discussed: who is profiting from these wars? (Image: Enlace Zapatista)
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