And after a month of "hard" work, we deserved a whim, the thorn that stuck and we had called Chiapas, home EZLN's struggle for a better world ....... as well the title says, a world with room for other worlds, really, although it sounds utopian, it is possible, though not an easy task and has required the efforts of many and the lives of others and how much remains to be done ...... but well, let's start at the beginning .....
From Tulum we took a bus to Palenque, Chiapas ...... our first destination 12 hours to get to the jungle again, this time the bugs respected us enough ..... all but the monkeys, mearnos were made up when we arrived and did not let us sleep a lot with his aulliditos, but no mosquitoes or bugs damn !!!!!!!
Visit the ruins of Palenque, also located on the middle of the jungle, spectacular, here you have a few shots .......
From Tulum we took a bus to Palenque, Chiapas ...... our first destination 12 hours to get to the jungle again, this time the bugs respected us enough ..... all but the monkeys, mearnos were made up when we arrived and did not let us sleep a lot with his aulliditos, but no mosquitoes or bugs damn !!!!!!!
Visit the ruins of Palenque, also located on the middle of the jungle, spectacular, here you have a few shots .......
From here we headed SanCristobal de las Casas, another colonial town full of culture and tradition ..... we stayed in the "squat" the rabbit, where we feel at home again uan, bonfires, barbecues and dinners on "family "...... Here we met with Charles a companion of Bilbo's very cool with that visited the area for a week charged ............... stories and adventures ....
San Cristobal, churches, markets, its streets full of graffiti in favor of the EZLN deserved a few days to know .......
San Juan Chamula, a 100% native village 15 mins. San Cristobal with a full church puntazo pictures of Christian saints to which the natives worship the way, sitting on the floor covered with pine needles and making purification rituals with eggs and molasses and reciting something misunderstood in Tzotzil the language of the area. Unfortunately, it prohibited the use of cameras inside the church, so we do not have pictures of this ....
As we have said and many of you already know, Chiapas is the birthplace of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, EZLN, who struggle for freedom and equality of indigenous peoples in Mexico, which took up arms on 1 January 1994 to give to the world the injustices, massacres, kidnappings , rape and famine that have been suffering indigenous communities in Chiapas, in Mexico and throughout the world ....
Organized into self-reliant communities, the Zapatistas continue to suffer repression from the Mexican government has reached agreements with them that were never fulfilled, so continue to resist the siege that the government and the military do about them, although the situation War is the cease-fire, the insurgents are taking advantage of jungle to hide and continue to provide assistance to communities ..... education, health, gender equality, food, many fronts in the fighting, and the only indigenous communities which have made some improvement in recent years are the Zapatistas, although there is still much work to do.
So, we decided to visit the Caracol of Oventic the nearest civilization, an hour's drive from San Cris, to learn about the struggle and to help where we could ....... we arrived and the door we Indian woman gets her face covered by a handkerchief that asks us passports and asks the reason for our visit ..... we replied that we come to inquire about the status of the conflict and to provide our modest aid, which consisted a little food, rice, beans and sugar (their staple foods) and a bit of illusion for children in the form of lollipops and Caram 
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They let us and took us to the Good Government, as the "Zapatista Caracoles" are the center where all of the communities govern themselves ... we were a group of masked men and women who took our names, professions and the food that we had received thanks and giving us struck up a conversation about the struggle and the movement quite interesting but limited because their English was not very good ......
After that we got permission to visit the rest of the facility, hospital, schools, cooperatives, in short, a self-sufficient community and proud of it ...............
After that we got permission to visit the rest of the facility, hospital, schools, cooperatives, in short, a self-sufficient community and proud of it ...............
And so spent the week, good vibes, friendship, zenith, culture, theater, film and solidarity that we leave a great taste mouth and a lot of experiences that will grow as people doing a little more each day we spend on this trip ....... we went to the Pacific coast to "rest" in the beach a little more, and enjoy what we have, which is not much .......
As always, I want ... Adri and Hector
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