ABSTRACT
This chapter describes that Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) or Neo-Zapatism was the first movement that used digital networks with the purpose of creating a focal point of resistance, both locally and globally. Global capitalism reinforced the existence of inequalities in Mexico and in Latin America, creating marginalized subjectivities and reinstating old marginalized populations in new forms of domination and exploitation. Neo-Zapatism was viral in two senses. First, because it changed the signification of networks by hacking those that commonly were meant to serve global capitalism. Second, because it incorporated the logic of networks as a new way to produce social action. The Internet began to be used as a medium for resistance, and the image of the virtual guerrillero who goes around cyberspace turned into a symbol of new forms of insurgency. The figure of the hacker has become popular as a social rebel who attacks government websites and those related in general with political and economic powers.
