The political-military origins of the EZNL are found in the National Liberation Forces (FLN), a clandestine organization formed at the end of the 1960s in northern Mexico, inspired by the Cuban revolution, the FLN organized a guerrilla struggle with the aim of achieving the construction of socialism in Mexico. But some time later, in the early 1970s, they ended their activities abruptly when their structure in Mexico City was discovered by state security forces and many of their militants, both in Chiapas and Mexico City, were brutally assassinated. However, its survivors did not give up and managed to reorganize and settle in 1983 in Chiapas, pursuing the same objectives. However, in order to achieve their objectives, they formed the EZLN and a social base to sustain it.
The main social base of the EZLN is in the indigenous municipalities of the Cañadas region, the highlands and the northern zone of Chiapas. A large number of the commanders are indigenous and, at least since 1993, the military apparatus has been subordinated to a council of delegates from the Zapatista communities called the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Clandestine Committee (CCRI). The indigenous communities in the country have a long history of exploitation, abandonment and exclusion from national political and economic life, and have strengthened their community organization, while historically leading various social movements in search of improving their living conditions, preserving their traditions and customs or for their self-determination and government; The jungle zone and the highlands of Chiapas are no exception, so the guerrilla group that arrived there found an already highly politicized indigenous society, with experience in mobilization and with permanent communication with diverse political and social organizations; The little or no response to their demands on the part of federal, state or local authorities, and the permanent violation of their fundamental rights, may explain, on the one hand, the reasons why they opted for the armed struggle in 1994. On the other hand, their growing participation in the Zapatista uprising reinforced the indigenous character of the EZLN, which quickly integrated their demands in its program and discourse, which generated that during the negotiations with the federal government, a process was initiated to establish a new relationship between the State and the indigenous peoples of the country. The EZLN, on behalf of the national indigenous movement, incorporated the demands and proposals of the various indigenous representations of the country.
Being the indigenous peasants “support bases” for the EZLN, we can highlight five forms of cooperation between these two groups: safeguarding the clandestinity of the insurgents; recruiting new combatants; guaranteeing supplies to sustain the guerrillas; participating in protest mobilizations; and carrying out collective infrastructure work and (inter)community services. These functions strengthen the bonds of (inter)community solidarity, increase social integration and strengthen a “Zapatista identity”.
In the 1994 uprising in Chiapas, the EZLN demanded the vindication of the ownership of the lands taken from the indigenous communities, a better distribution of wealth and the participation of the different ethnic groups in the organization of the state and the country; the reaction of the federal government was to send troops to Chiapas to quell the rebellion. The mobilizations of the civil society stopped the attacks and after 12 days of armed conflict, the federal government unilaterally declared a ceasefire.
The talks between the EZLN and the federal government ended with the signing in February 1996 of the San Andres Accords on “Indigenous Rights and Culture”, which committed the State to recognize indigenous peoples constitutionally and to grant them autonomy. The dialogues also gave rise to the foundation of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) on October 12, 1996, a movement of indigenous peoples, neighborhoods, tribes, nations, collectives and organizations, with the slogan “Never again a Mexico without us” and with the objective of the integral reconstitution of the indigenous peoples. In March 1995, the Commission for Concord and Pacification (COCOPA), a bicameral legislative commission made up of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies and Senate, was formed to assist in the dialogue process.
Shortly after they were signed, the San Andres Accords were ignored by President Ernesto Zedillo. A policy of encirclement and siege, organized by the federal and local governments with the support of landowners and cattle ranchers, organized paramilitary forces trained by the army itself and allocated considerable resources to the cooptation of citizens and groups, while at the same time accentuating the expulsion of opponents from their lands and villages.
COCOPA, which was charged with drafting a proposal for constitutional reform that would include the main consensuses established in the San Andres Accords, presented its initiative to the parties in November 1996; the EZLN accepted the proposal; the President, although he accepted it at first, soon proposed modifications that substantially changed the proposal, without recognizing the rights of the indigenous peoples, and without recognizing any compromise. The peace process became bogged down.
In 2003, the EZLN announced the creation of Los Caracoles and the Good Government Councils, which reinforced the principle of “commanding by obeying”, -they listen, do, decide and command, obeying the communities and their territorial organizations-, and in the autonomy they allow to propose a strong project of networks with national and international possibilities. Since its creation, Zapatista teachers and doctors have been trained and schools and clinics have been built. In addition, a justice system has been developed which is used by both Zapatistas and other members of society, as it is more efficient than the institutional system.
The Caracoles, in the words of Pablo González Casanova, “open new possibilities of resistance and autonomy for the indigenous peoples of Mexico and the world, a resistance that includes all social sectors that fight for democracy, freedom and justice for all”.
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Hey, are there any good beginner guides to building a PC for someone that's kinda ignorant about it and hasn't done anything but basically repairs/upgrades on a pre built before? Thinking about building a mid range PC for audio production and vidya and a guide to different parts and diminishing returns on performance vs prices would be really helpful
Pcpartpicker the goat for making sure parts are compatible
As for what parts are good value rn I'll leave that to someone else cause I don't keep up with that at all.
GOOD website, tyvm
Whatever build list you put together you can post it in c/technology and we'll take a look
/r/buildapc used to be good for that. If you gave them a budget and explained your goals they'd help you build a parts list. Dunno if it's still around.
You should know that Intel chips are both unreliable for the last several generations and also on the BDS list.
Is the only alternative AMD?
Technically no but practically yes. ARM, RISCV, and Loongson are all at various stages of emerging as competition but none are really ready for end users at this point except Apple's ARM machines, which I wouldn't recommend unless you specifically want to be locked in to Apple's ecosystem.
For historical patent reasons, only Intel and AMD are allowed to make chips using the x86_64 architecture that pretty much all desktop software is intended to run on.
Pcpartpicker is good for gaming out parts as someone said, there is also logicalincrements which will give you sort of tiers (by approximate price) and it handles some of the trade offs (I.e. when should you spend more on cpu vs gpu vs ram vs higher quality mono). I think it also has suggestions by use case.
Edit: all things being equal, this is a personal bias but I’d prefer an nvidia card over an amd one. Upscaling has become really important in recent years, and nvidia’s solution is currently much better. But maybe it runs well on amd cards as well, might be worth researching
Nvidia has a definite power consumption/performance edge for most use cases. The only situation in which I would caution someone against using an Nvidia GPU is if they intend to work primarily in a Linux environment. Mind you, that hasn't stopped me from playing all my games on a Debian system with an RTX 3060, it works for me, but AMD still gets better Linux drivers I am told.
As our comrades have suggested, PC Part Picker and Logical Increments are excellent guides. I personally buy most of my parts through Newegg, and their site has a PC builder workflow that will do some basic compatability checks, like "Does the CPU I picked fit the socket on this mainboard?" and "Is my GPU going to fit in this case?", that type of stuff. I'd suggest starting with a Logical Increments build at your price point, and then plugging those picks into Newegg's builder and substituting parts as you find better deals.