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Homage to Chiapas : the new indigenous struggles in Mexico / Bill Weinberg.

Van Pelt Library F1219.1.C45 W45 2000
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Weinberg, Bill, 1941-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Chiapas--Government relations.
Indians of Mexico.
Indians, Treatment of.
Mayas--Wars.
Mayas--Civil rights.
Mayas.
Mexico--Chiapas.
Mayas--Civil rights--Mexico--Chiapas.
Mayas--Wars--Mexico--Chiapas.
Indians, Treatment of--Mexico--Chiapas.
Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.
Chiapas (Mexico).
Physical Description:
xxi, 456 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Verso, 2000.
Summary:
Bill Weinberg slogs through jungles to uncover heroic insurrectionary hopes radical journalism the way it's supposed to be done.
Contents:
Part I The Legacy of Resistance
1 Five Hundred Years of Maya Rebellion: From Syncretism to the New Zapatismo 15
2 "Misery in the Name of Freedom": Free Trade Mexico as a US Slave Colony 37
3 Southern Mexico in the Free Trade Order: Political Ecology of the New Zapatismo 66
Part II War Cry from Chiapas
4 Zapata Lives: 1994 97
5 Behind Lines with Marcos: 1994 118
6 Parallel Power: 1995 133
7 The Challenge of San Andres: 1996 153
8 Stealth Counterinsurgency: 1997 164
9 Dirty War of Attrition: 1998 176
10 "A Revolution to Make a Revolution Possible" 187
Part III The Flame Catches
11 Oil and Resistance in Tabasco: The Chontal Maya Survival Struggle in Mexico's Land of Black Gold 205
12 Guardians of Tehuantepec: Campesino Struggle and Revolutionary Echoes in Oaxaca and Guerrero 237
13 The Golf War of Tepoztlan: Popular Defense and Ecological Struggle in the Heartland of Zapata 253
Part IV Shadow Dances
14 Fire in the Sierra Madre Del Sur: Who Is the Popular Revolutionary Army? 279
15 Anatomy of the Narco-Dictatorship: The Counter-Revolution Devours Its Children 301
16 Opium Fields of the Tarahumara: Narco-Colonialism in the Sierra Madre Occidental 323
Part V Intervention and Solidarity in the Free Trade Order
17 Narco-Imperialism: The New Interventionism 345
18 Border Wars: Scapegoating or Solidarity? 361.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-445) and index.
ISBN:
1859847196
OCLC:
43985393

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