Abstract

FERREYRA CORRAL, Diana Patricia. The first declaration of the Lacandon Jungle: declaration of war from EZLN to Mexican government 1994. Let. hist. [online]. 2017, n.16, pp.225-243. ISSN 2448-8372.

The objective of this article is to analyze the historical arguments of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) legitimated by the First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. In order to do so, the Zapatistas' positions to denounce the social practice of the Federal Government and the Signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, included in this Declaration, will be approached by the Critical Discourse Analysis and the Relevance Theory.

Keywords : EZLN; Carlos Salinas de Gortari government; First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle; Relevance theory; Critical Discourse Analysis.