Emiliano is one of my many favorite tee shirts out there, what makes it the most favorite is that as soon as I printed the first batch they all sold out, that had never happened before and so that’s why it’s so special to me. The simple design in the front is a tribute to Emiliano Zapata and the back is a combination of some weapons used during the Mexican Revolution including the Mezcal. The story goes like this: Usually kids like to dress up as Spider-Man, Superman or Captain America well this kids likes to dress up as Emiliano and go off and fight “Los Guachos” or the Mexican Army, it’s a little weird but hey It could happen. We will be re-printing this design by next month and it will be available through our online store.
For a long time I been wanting to come out with certain DIMEX inspired T-Shirts collections that pay tribute to certain movements/characters that have inspired the brand to become what it is. One of those movements has to be the EZLN. Their movement struck the world when they decided to be heard by raising their arms against the Mexican military in order to obtain peace and tranquility from the governing laws and corporate incursions on their territory. They don’t consider themselves anything just people that want to work their lands and avoid any mexican government/corporate involvement with their territory that once belonged to them the “Maya”.
” We don’t want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don’t see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn’t go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.”
—Subcomandante Marcos
This tribute in T-Shirt form is coming soon and will be available at our Dimex Store as well as in most of our Stockist. Hope you like it, and “Hasta La Victoria Siempre”.
El Tuerto is one of our newest additions to the DIMEX Collection, Inspired by Antonio Aguilar and all of his Revolutionary movies. I have been a huge Antonio Aguilar fan since I was little, I used to sing towards the boom box my aunt had in her living room, I would wear my botas, a sombrero and I would play a messed up guitar that only had one string on it. My favorite song then and today has to be “Albur De Amores”. This is my homage to the “mero mero” Don Antonio Aguilar.
In 1916, an intrepid reporter, Guillermo Ojara, was assigned by his paper, El Demócrata, to go south to seek and interview Emiliano Zapata.
After harrowing incidents with hundreds of Zapatistas in the mountains, valleys, even The Hill of the Scorpions inhabited by thousands of those deadly creatures, Ojara was finally brought to his subject.
It is interesting to note that Zapata was called “El Attila del Sur” by his men, and frequently signed his public proclamations with that title. Without further delay, here, in part, are Ojara’s words, which tell us much about Zapata’s physical appearance, charismatic presence, and philosophy of justice for the poor.
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The Zapata interview 
