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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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