Zapatistn.adj.

1911 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 6/3 The Zapatists have thus far refused to recognize the Provisional Government.

1939 B. D. Wolfe Diego Rivera xx. 253 Organs of the Comintern throughout the world were to discover..that he had never been a Leninist, but only a petty-bourgeois agrarian Zapatist (follower of Zapata) and had now become a bourgeois painter altogether.

1980 G. Rudé Ideol. & Pop. Protest (1995) ii. iii. 70 A Memorial drawn up by the Zapatists in late September 1911.

1994 Economist 8 Jan. 46/1 Few elsewhere may follow the Chiapas rebels' call to arms. Indeed some villagers have criticised the Zapatists, some of whose recruits say they were coerced.

2001 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 6 Mar. b5 Passing the bill, releasing political prisoners and withdrawing the army from various points in Chiapas are the Zapatists' conditions for agreeing once again to talk to the government and, eventually, to end the rebellion.

1911 Times 30 Oct. 5/1 (headline) Ministerial changes in Mexico. (The Zapatist rising).

1974 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 68 1352/1 The Zapatist facet of the Mexican revolution.

1994 Economist (Nexis) 15 Jan. 39 Two weeks after the start of their quixotic rebellion, the ‘Zapatist’ peasants whose uprising in Chiapas state shocked the Mexican government on new year's day continue to elude its troops.