Are there political groups, drug traffickers or foreign interests behind the EZLN?
No. The EZLN is a completely Mexican organization. It didn’t have any foreign financing, and its decisions and actions are answerable to the orders of the zapatista indigenous communities. We are independent of all national and international political organizations. Not only are we not dependent on drug trafficking, but we have fought it since our creation. In the zapatista indigenous communities, the use, planting and trafficking of narcotics is prohibited. No country or organization maintains the EZLN economically. The EZLN supports itself through its own resources, that is, with the support of the communities. That is why we are a poor army.
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