Resumen

CEDILLO-CEDILLO, Adela. Análisis de la fundación del EZLN en Chiapas desde la perspectiva de la acción colectiva insurgente. LiminaR [online]. 2012, vol.10, n.2, pp.15-34. ISSN 2007-8900.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors underlying insurgent collective action in the founding of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1983. Through the reconstruction of the FLN-EZLNs formative process this paper challenges structuralist interpretations and emphasizes the dynamic interplay of structural, conjunctural, organizational and subjective factors. I argue that the success in creating a guerrilla movement within indigenous communities in the North and Cañadas regions was due to the exhaustion of other political propositions to resolve land issues and the need for peasant self-defense, motivated by repression and threat of mass eviction of the Lacandon Jungle. The methodology used for this study was both qualitative and documentary research.

Palabras llave : neozapatismo; guerrillas; peasants; indigenous; self-defense.