Yeah, I think there are many, very specific factors that led to this strategy working out for the Zapatistas, which aren't easily found everywhere else, especially the imperial core. For one, they found themselves on the periphery, being a historically barely developed part at the edge of Mexico. But other than location, the timing of it all was also immensely important, I think. Being in the organized position to actually be able to formally capture territory and declare a war on the day that NAFTA came into effect - which meant land privatizations of small parcel communal farmland, effectively threatening the local way of life - was most crucial. And I'm not sure how long NAFTA has been in the talks, especially around that area, but I figure it was, if even, barely an idea on the horizon when the Zapatistas started organizing, forming indigenous decision making bodies and building military power as a guerilla group. They've always been organizing for indigenous liberation, and when the colonial state apparatus at the behest of empire tried to reach for the commons once more, they were ready to actually do something about it.