Are the Zapatistas terrorists?
No. In fact, the Zapatistas were uniformly horrified when New York City was attacked. The Zapatista spokesperson Marcos wrote these words just a few months before 9/11, “The movement in resistance to globalization walks on a knife’s edge. It must widen this edge until it is transformed into an avenue that leads to a new world. On one side there is the recovery by way of globalization. For example the masters of the world say, we will globalize some of the discontents by offering them a piece of the pie. On the other side are Milosevic and other nationalist extremists. The two options are an illusion, traps; just as much the recovery by way of globalization as the way of the radical nationalists. We know that this is a false alternative. What we have to do is widen the edge of the knife to open a space of possibility for the advance of the global progressive movement that impedes that the two extremes which present themselves as the only options before globalization; that one is favor o
