Zapatista territories

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The Zapatista territories are a de facto autonomous region controlled or partially controlled by neo-Zapatista support bases in Chiapas, Mexico. They have existed since the Zapatista uprising in 1994 and are part of the wider Chiapas conflict. From 1994 to 2003, the Zapatista territories were structured as regional community centers called Aguascalientes. In 2003, the Aguascalientes were replaced by Centers of Autonomous Resistance and Zapatista Rebellion (CRAREZ), a term coined in 2019, which consisted of Caracoles as community centers, over local formations (until 2023) as the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (MAREZ) governed by Councils of Good Government (Spanish: Juntas de Buen Gobierno). In 2023, after increased cartel violence, the EZLN announced the dissolution of the MAREZ and its sub-formations, replacing them with Local Autonomous Governments (GAL) within local Zapatista Autonomous Government Collectives (CGAZ) and regional Assemblies of Collectives of Zapatista Autonomous...

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