Zapatista stories for other possible worlds. From Old Antonio to Defensa Zapatista

Abstract

The Zapatista press releases, converted into instruments for dialogue with civil society, have represented the construction of a political literature aimed at the transformation of consciences. We analyze the main characters born from the pen of Subcomandante Marcos and Subcomandante Galeano, to analyze the voices and struggles they represent. We begin with Old Antonio, the voice of memory and indigenous resistance; Don Durito de la Lacandona, beetle destined to give us lessons on neoliberalism; Elías Contreras and Magdalena, who represent the fight for the recognition of sexual-gender diversity; and the girl Defensa Zapatista, the Zapatista dream of making a world where girls grow up without fear possible. This journey allows us to visualize the different axes of struggle encompassed in Zapatismo, and show how there is a struggle for the construction of other epistemologies that are the result of a political practice, of the Zapatista walk while asking.