2/12/2003: Mexican car protest

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Originally posted by 99 44/100% pure
To google a spanish group, you need to put the noun first, such as "Organizacion Emiliano Zapata Campesino" (and change English spellings, such as substituting a 'c' for the 'z' in organization).

This is probably a splinter or sub-group of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN or Zapatista National Liberation Army). (This link is a quick overview of the group, written, improbably, as part of a site designed for Irish people to learn about events in Mexico.)

"Organizacion Emiliano Zapata Campesino" doesn't make sense. It's Organización Campesina Emiliano Zapata, or OCEZ.

Hm... why "campesina" instead of "campesino"? It's because things have gender in spanish. It's "La organización"... one time, an english friend of mine asked me why a table was "la mesa" instead of "el mesa", and I didn't have an answer. Still I don't.