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Comandante Ramona, a Tzotzil female guerilla and activist, was born near San Andrés de Larrainzer, Mexico in 1959.
Ramona is a Tzotzil, one of the many indigenous groups that form the majority of Chiapas citizens.

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Comandanta Ramona

Mayan activist in Mexico

Comandanta Ramona (1959–6 January 2006) was an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a revolutionaryindigenousautonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She led the Zapatista Army into San Cristóbal de las Casas during the Zapatista uprising of 1994, and was the first Zapatista to appear publicly in Mexico City.^[1]^[2]^[3] She was one of the most important public figures during the first stages of the Zapatista Uprising and was central to the Indigenous Women's Movement.^[4]

Biography

Ramona was born in 1959 in the Tzotzil community of San Andres Sacamch'en de los Pobres in the highlands of Chiapas.^[5]^[6] Ramona was an embroiderer, a common occupation for the women in the community, before she joined the Zapatista Movement.^[7]^[8] Ramona left her village during a time of economic downturn, unable to find work and without a way to make a living. It was this venture outside of her home village that

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My name is Rachel Sherman and I am a junior at Loyola Marymount University. I’m a political science and Chicana/o studies double major. I chose to focus on Comandante Ramona because I admire her courage and strength as a revolutionary figure, especially in a country dominated by patriarchy such as Mexico. Before beginning this project, every time I learned about the Zapatista uprising, I would often hear Subcomandante Marcos’s name mentioned more than anyone else, more so than Comandante Ramona. I realized that this unbalance is echoed throughout history, with most historical events being told in a narrative where male figures are gloried and commemorated, leaving prominent female figures to be less recognized. Therefore, I chose Comandante Ramona because I wanted to share her story that is oftentimes overlooked.

This website focuses on Chicana and Latina writers, activists, and artists in the U.S., and although Comandante Ramona focused her revolutionary efforts in Mexico, her activism nonetheless involved U.S. politics and imperialism. Therefore, although Comandante Ramona’s

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Comandante Ramona

Comandante Ramona, a Tzotzil female guerilla and activist, was born near San Andrés de Larrainzer, Mexico in 1959. She was closely associated with Mexico’s Subcomandante Marcos when he launched his Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994. Together they lead the guerilla group called the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The top level of leadership within the EZLN is the Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee (CCRI), which is responsible for organizing communities and regions. Comandante Ramona was among the members of the CCRI. Comandante Ramona led the rebels into the town of San Cristobal de las Casas on New Year’s Day 1994 demanding indigenous rights for the people of Chiapas while protesting the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which came into effect that day. The EZLN in their efforts called for land, jobs, housing, food, healthcare, justice, and democracy, while demanding that an end be put to the hundreds of years of exploitation and marginalization of indigenous peoples and peasants of Chiapas.

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