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Overview
The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year’s Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First World, HA HA HA!—a defiant declaration of solidarity with the rebels, an insurgent army of indigenous campesinos who have challenged the direction of Mexico's future.
The Chiapas uprising was internationally hailed as a direct attack on the new world order. It was a milestone in the continuing history of indigenous resistance in the Americas, and an important development in the growing worldwide struggle against global policies of economic colonization.
In this collection, writers from Mexico and the United States provide the background and context for the Zapatista movement, and explore its impact, in Mexico and beyond.
Synopsis
The Zapatista Army emerged from the jungle on New Year’s Day, 1994, and provoked a national crisis in Mexico. At a demonstration in Mexico City, over 100,000 people marched together and shouted, First World, HA HA HA!—a defiant declaration of solidarity with the rebels, an insurgent army of indigenous campesinos who have challenged the direction of Mexico's future.
The Chiapas uprising was internationally hailed as a direct attack on the new world order. It was a milestone in the continuing history of indigenous resistance in the Americas, and an important development in the growing worldwide struggle against global policies of economic colonization.
In this collection, writers from Mexico and the United States provide the background and context for the Zapatista movement, and explore its impact, in Mexico and beyond.
BookList
The latest revolutionary eruption from Central America, the continuing revolt in Mexico's southernmost state, caught the press, politicians, and certainly libraries without enough information on the situation. From a perspective sympathetic to the privations of the people of Chiapas, this collection of 30 articles temporarily (and inexpensively) plugs the info-gap. Its unifying theme--the measure of autonomy to be accorded indigenous ethnic groups--spans formats as different as poems, eyewitness accounts of last year's fighting, interviews with a union leader and with the rebellion's leader Marcos, supporting words from Leonard Peltier (the Sioux convicted--unjustly he claims--of killing FBI agents), and perspectives on the revolutionaries' challenge to global economic structures like GATT and NAFTA from academicians such as Noam Chomsky.