The Zapatista reader / edited by Tom Hayden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayden, Tom.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Guerrillas.

History.

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Mexico--Politics and government--1988-.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Marcos, subcomandante.

Marcos.

Guerrillas--Mexico--Chiapas--History.

Mexico--Chiapas.

Physical Description:

vii, 503 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, [2002]

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

A journey through an insurgent and magical world of culture and politics, this reader includes a wide sampling of the best writing to emerge as a result of the Zapatista peasant rebellion.

Contents:

Part 1 The Story 17

Opening Shots / Andrew Kopkind 19

Zapatistas! The Phoenix Rises / Paco Ignacio Taibo II 21

The Media Spectacle Comes to Mexico / Octavio Paz 30

The Unmasking / Alma Guillermoprieto 33

The Marcos Mystery: A Chat with the Subcommander of Spin / Joel Simon 45

Chiapas Chronicle / Eduardo Galeano 48

Guerrillas in the Mist / Andres Oppenheimer 51

Women's Battle for Respect Inch by Inch / Elena Poniatowska 55

US Trains Thousands of Mexican Soldiers / Pascal Beltran Del Rio 57

Mexico's Secret War / Luis Hernandez Navarro 61

Comic Relief, NEA Style / Joann Wypijewski 68

King of the Jungle / Michael McCaughan 72

In Chiapas / Tom Hayden 76

Mexico's Dirty War / Bill Weinberg 98

Postscript: March 2001 105

The People of the Color of the Earth 106

The Unknown Icon / Naomi Klein 114

From the Subsoil to the Mask that Reveals: The Visible Indian / Carlos Monsivais 123

Marcos Marches on Mexico City / Ignacio Ramonet 133

Indian Is Beautiful / Homero Aridjis 142

Two Lascasian Poems / Homero Aridjis 145

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation / Saul Landau 146

The Twilight of the Revolutionaries? / Jorge Mancillas 153

The Invisible Sight / Salvador Carrasco 166

Marcos Speaks / Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cambio 178

The Story of the Boot and the Chessboard / John Ross 190

Words of Comandanta Esther at the Congress of the Union 195

Part 2 The Word 205

Testimonies of the First Day 207

First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 217

Second Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 221

Third Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 231

Fourth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle 239

Of Trees, Criminals, and Odontology: Letter to Carlos Monsivais 250

The Fourth World War Has Begun 270

Marcos on Memory and Reality 285

Marcos From the Underground Culture to the Culture of Resistance 297

To the Relatives of the Politically Disappeared 306

Do Not Forget Ideas Are Also Weapons 311

Part 3 The Commentaries 321

The Last Glow of the Mexican Revolution / Adolfo Gilly 323

A Guerrilla with a Difference / Regis Debray 340

Northern Intellectuals and the EZLN / Daniel Nugent 352

As Time Goes By: "Marcos," or the Mask is the Message / Jose de la Colina 363

Once Again, the Noble Savage / Jean Meyer 367

Voices from the Jungle: Subcomandante Marcos and Culture / Elena Poniatowska 373

Chiapas: Land of Hope and Sorrow / Jose Saramago 382

Unmasking Marcos / Ilan Stavans 386

Chiapas: The Indians' Prophet / Enrique Krauze 395

"Seeds of the Word" in Chiapas: An Interview with Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia / Gary MacEoin 418

The Zapatistas: The Challenges of Revolution in a New Millennium / Mike Gonzalez 430

Of Love, Marriage, Children, and War / Guiomar Rovira 452

Marcos: Mestizo Culture on the Move / Manuel Vazquez Montalban 472

Against the Great Defeat of the World / John Berger 483.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-491).

ISBN:

1560253355

OCLC:

47696577