Chiapas

There are over 35 Zapatista communities in Chiapas, which is very rural and over 7,000 feet above sea level. The members wear masks to cover their faces as a method of resistance and protests, calling themselves “the Faceless.”3 Thus, in its own small way the movement continues its initial goals of…

faster sustainable winds (200 mph). Hurricane Patricia starting forming in the Pacific, but didn’t hit anybody’s radar until it started to form a tropical storm in the Gulf of Tehuantepec which is in the Pacific Ocean west of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The storm then quickly went from a tropical storm to a Category Five Hurricane. The increase in the temperature of the water due to the El Nino allowed for Hurricane Patricia to intensify this quickly. The storm then reached land at Cuixmala,…

On January 1, 1994 the Zapatista uprising took place in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) had been organizing long before 1994, but the New Year’s Day uprising is very significant to their beginnings as it propelled them onto a national and international spotlight. Rooted in their cause was anti-neoliberalism as it related to the indigenous struggle. The date of the revolution was not random, but chosen because it was the day that the North American Free Trade…

The human race begins roughly around 2.4 million years ago, and is disbursed throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe. It is from the Homo ergaster, who remained in Africa, however, that evolved into Homo sapiens. Moreover, natural selection is the outcome of species who survived by adapting to global climate changes during migration process, thereby producing offspring and strengthening their kind in the evolutionary process. It was fifteen thousand years ago, an immense migration of people made…

In comptent of, nowadays countless words are used in many different ways to detriment people and not to comfort them. Equivalent to what Gloria Naylor expressed in her essay, “The Meanings of Words,” she states, “Words themselves are innocuous;it is the consensus that gives them true power”(118). For instance, the word that identified her and several African Americans was the “n” word and for me the word that identifies with my group is Oaxacan yet, both these words are used within the same…

This strong output as well as the estimated reserve’s provides Mexico with both direct revenue as well as collateral for loans. Most of the petroleum in Mexico is situated around the Gulf of Mexico in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, and Chiapas. The land use in Mexico is manly used for farming and raising livestock. Mexico’s main crops include grains such as corn and wheat, tropical fruits and various vegetables. Agricultural exports are important, especially coffee, tropical fruits…

Living in a first world country with many privileges often times allows society to turn their heads and not see the battles that third world countries have to go through daily. The challenges that people of Latin America face do not directly affect common Americans in fact in ways it benefits them therefore it is easily ignored. Currently there is and has been many social movements and social change in Latin America that are against multi transnational and national corporations. The poor and…

out but cant with a hand around their neck and all that can be made out is a struggled grunt, this stirs a lot of emotion and may even make the listener feel tense or uneasy. Metaphor- "born without a face". This refers to the indigenous people of Chiapas, who were unrepresented and ignored by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) controlled Mexican government, but also broadly to other peoples hurt by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This lead to the people of the United…

Bartolomé de las Casas was born in 1484 in Sevilla, Spain and died July 1566 in Madrid. He was a very famous Spanish historian, social reformer, and Dominican friar in the 16th-century. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially elected “Protector of the Indians.” His most famous writing is the excerpt A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias. Las Casas objected to the Spanish treatment of the natives, and in 1542 he wrote an…

How you ever wondered where did your ancestors come from. Well I can tell you I have at one point. But right now I will at least give you from where I am from and my parent were are they from. Well let's start with me I was born in Mississippi and my parents are from Mexico so that make me mexican american. Well my dad is from Tabasco and where do you find Tabasco well is in the south of Mexico and well is a tropical state in Mexico it is all ways humid and it rains a lot. Well and my mom is…