The history of marginalization of indigenous peoples and subsistence farmers in the Chiapas conflict came to a head with the 1994 Zapatista (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional - EZLN) uprising and its aftermath.
Ka ntlha ya go bo Baindia ba Ba-Maya ba sa bolo go nna mo lehumeng le go tingwa dilo ka lobaka lo loleele, ba ne ba tsosa khuduego ka January 1994, ba ipitsa Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN, National Liberation Zapatista Army).