The Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, attracted worldwide attention on January 1, 1994, when they marched on Mexico City against the signing of the Northern Free Trade Agreement America (NAFTA). The free trade agreement was intended to facilitate trade between Canada, the United States and Mexico. The Zapatista argued that this agreement would have repercussions on the indigenous people of Chiapas by further widening the gap between poor and rich. In this article I will examine the NAFTA Agreement, Zapatista ideology, and the claims against the NAFTA Agreement to see whether or not any real effects have occurred among the indigenous peoples of Chiapas Mexico and in Mexico as a whole. The Goal of North American Free Trade The agreement called for the elimination of trade and investment barriers between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Implementation of the agreement resulted in the immediate removal of tariffs on more than half of U.S. imports from Mexico and more than a third of U.S. exports to Mexico. Within ten years of the implementation of the NAFTA agreement, all US and Mexican tariffs would be abolished. The only tariffs that would remain would be those affecting U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico. However, these would be phased out within fifteen years of the program's initial implementation. NAFTA also seeks to eliminate all non-tariff trade barriers. The ideology of the Zapatista movement, also known as Zapatismo or the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), integrates traditional Mayan practices with elements of Marxism, libertarian socialism, and anarchism. Zapatismo opposes economic globalization, arguing that it seriously and negatively affects indigenous lifestyles. The North American F...... half of the document ......Liberation Army (EZLN)." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011. Web. 23 November 2011. ."North Agreement American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2011. Web. 23 November 2011. .Dellacioppa, Kara Zugman. The Bridge Called Zapatismo: building alternative Political Cultures in Mexico City, Los Angeles and beyond. Lexington Books, 2009.Lowery, George Allen Collier and Elizbeth. Basta Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, CA: Food First Books, 1999.Rondefeldt, David F. and Arroyo Center” in Mexico Rand Corporation, 1998