Unit 2: Contemporary Resistance

Chiapas Uprising 1994-Present 

Essential Questions:

What general groups and people live in Mexico today?

What is life like for people living in Mexico?

What happened in 1994 in Chiapas? Are those struggles still continuing?

How have Indians in Mexico become so marginalized?

How did they come to recognize their rights?

Overview:

The purpose of this unit is to explore the function of resistance in Mexico by studying the uprising in Chiapas in 1994.