The Mexican states of Chiapas, on New Year’s Eve in 1993, was sent into an international scene where the Zapatista guerrilla army gained control of the colonial city of San Cristobal de las Casas. The Zapatistts were very neat and organized and had a greater military strength then those in their first action that happened as FSLN in Nicaragua, FMLN in El Salvador, or URNG in Guatemala. Furthermore, unlike most of Central America, their rank and file are made almost exclusively of teenagers and young adults from the ethnic Mayan groups of the highlands.
The uprising started in January 1994, it lasted for almost 2 years, before being crushed by the government. Negotiations between the government and Zapatistas let agreements be signed as part