Three critical events illustrate the EZLN's political practice and the new political culture that it advocates. The first is that Marcos did not appear during negotiations with the government representatives that led to the San Andres Accords in 1996 (the only accords signed by the two sides so far, but not duly implemented by the government [Hernandez Navarro and Vera Herrera, 1998; Harvey, 2002]). The EZLN's negotiating team consisted of nine indigenous representatives, including two women, from several regions of Chiapas. The second regards