The First Declaration from the Sierra Madre is the first declaration made away from the former Mexican state of Chiapas issued by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Decreed in 5 June 2010, the declaration establishes the Community of Chiapas and the short-lived Democratic Convention. It is the ninth overall declaration made by the EZLN, and it pays homage to the first declaration made in January 1994 at the beginning of the War of National Liberation.