Talk:Years of Blood: Cold War (Map Game)/@comment-26031225-20160910143338

Zapatista Liberation Army

Lucio Cabañas, a rural teacher from Guerrero, Mexico starts recruiting peasants and indigenous peoples and creates the Zapatista Liberation Army in the mexican state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala. They raid multiple towns and try gaining popular support, promising them lands and equal rights if they win their revolution. By the end of the year they had control over nearly all of Chiapas since the mexican goverment was unable to fight them back (the rebels have better knowledge of the jungle and they use guerrilla tactics). However, even though Chiapas has been "liberated" by the rebels, they still lack the weapons and the technology to expand further into other mexican states without getting defeated, so they ask for support from the Soviet Union and promise to join the Warsaw Pact if they win the war.