The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is an armed revolutionary group (VNSA) based in Chiapas. Since 1994, they have been in a declared war "against the Mexican state." Their social base is mostly an indigenous Mayan but they have some supporters in the middle east as well as an international web of support from Mexican based Taliban forces. Although its good that this group is against the mexican government, it is also against western democracies and capitalism. These idea's steam from its terrorist leader, Subcommadante Marcos.