Even with this increase the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. Since the government will not do anything to help the poor the poor hardly ever break away from their poor economic status. In 1994 the Zapatista National Liberation Army, often referred to as the Zapatistas, was created to help the poor fight. The primary goal, other than fighting for all of the poor, was to redistribute the land. The day after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed the Zapatistas took action and quickly took over four Chiapas towns. Rafael Guillén Vicente urged everyone to join the movement to go around capturing towns. The Zapatistas would fight for many days and would fend off the Mexican troops. In the first few battles they had around 100 people were killed. With the uprising now coming up even faster the Mexican government had a big problem on their hands. The president at the time, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, held peace talks to try to persuade the rebels to stop, but this did not stop. Secretly, while this was all happening the Mexican government was fighting the
Even with this increase the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. Since the government will not do anything to help the poor the poor hardly ever break away from their poor economic status. In 1994 the Zapatista National Liberation Army, often referred to as the Zapatistas, was created to help the poor fight. The primary goal, other than fighting for all of the poor, was to redistribute the land. The day after NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was signed the Zapatistas took action and quickly took over four Chiapas towns. Rafael Guillén Vicente urged everyone to join the movement to go around capturing towns. The Zapatistas would fight for many days and would fend off the Mexican troops. In the first few battles they had around 100 people were killed. With the uprising now coming up even faster the Mexican government had a big problem on their hands. The president at the time, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, held peace talks to try to persuade the rebels to stop, but this did not stop. Secretly, while this was all happening the Mexican government was fighting the