ABSTRACT
To complicate the issues Mexico's policy regarding Cuba turned out to be ambiguous. Mexico stood with the United States in defense of the Monroe Doctrine against any alien power infiltrating the affairs of the American sovereign states while refusing to cooperate in the blockade of Cuba. Marco's tactic was not to take power or defeat the Mexican government but to become a mouthpiece of the people. The ordinary Mexican middle-class concept of "popular culture," "folk culture," or "guerrilla culture" of Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) or Tepito variety includes a teeming cauldron of aesthetically senseless, intellectually trivial, morally bankrupt, and virtually chaotic practices. The Zapatista rebellion is not an ideology-based revolution of the customary sort. It is reformist, yet it creates a revolutionary image in the eyes of the Mexican middle class. As a consequence, Ernesto Zedillo and other party and government leaders seemed out of touch with the reality of Mexican life.
