The Zapatista Uprising, which began on January 1, 1994, provides a wonderful example of what Nietzsche termed an ‘‘untimely event.’’ Emerging from the jungles of Chiapas on the day that NAFTA came into effect, the 3000 poorly equipped Maya revolutionaries of the Ejecito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) sent a symbolic shock wave throughout the ‘‘post-revolutionary’’ world. While many at the time dismissed the Zapatistas for being a rag-tag socialist army that was frantically clinging to a redundant ideological platform, these initial assessments have been confounded with the insurgency now entering its fifteenth year (or twenty-fifth, if one considers the EZLN’s formative years). To be expected, throughout this period, the movement has become the conduit for many competing and divergent forms of analysis. Interest