History, resistances and connections in the Mexican agrarian: from the globalization of agriculture to the formation of the EZLN

Abstract

The present work analyzes the historical connection between the establishment of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the process of globalization of agriculture in Mexico. The dependent insertion in global capitalism provoked profound technological changes and the submission of Mexican agriculture to financial and industrial capital. In this context, the EZLN was historically created. The analysis uses the theoretical approach of global history to understand the dialectic interaction of social subjects with the capitalist modernization of agriculture. The Movement is understood as an experience of social resistance in Latin America, constituted from the dialectic of conflict, that is, the ability of social actors to mobilize popular and scientific knowledge in the process of social struggle to face economic, social and economic contradictions. policies arising from the globalization of agriculture. In this historical process, the Zapatistas produced the group's collective identity and ideals.