Are the EZLN an autarky?

[Skyhilist]

If not, where do they get outside resources from, and how do they get them? Is it mainly through donations or do they participate in some type of market for external trading, or what?

Also, when goods are distributed internally, is there any type of market or has money been (for the most part) abolished?

[Sasha]

They are deeply interweaven with Chiapas indigenous peasant live, the primary export product is coffee, there are activist co-ops in Germany that import Zapatista coffee into Europe for fair prices...

[Skyhilist]

They are deeply interweaven with Chiapas indigenous peasant live, the primary export product is coffee, there are activist co-ops in Germany that import Zapatista coffee into Europe for fair prices...

So the money they recieve from Germany from that: do they use that to buy goods that are distributed in a collectivist manner based on need, or is the money used by Zapatistas mainly to purchase goods individually on some type of local market?