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pb |
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9781560258742 |
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Nation Books |
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2006-12-05 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
In his third volume on the Zapatista uprising, John Ross concludes a journey he began in The War Against Oblivion--Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 with a frontline account of the past six years of the insurgency, and a brilliant eyewitness portrayal. In the wake of the 2000 election of Vicente Fox, Mexico's first opposition president in seven decades, hopes soared that a Zapatista-inspired Indian rights law would become the law of the land. But the usual dark forces in Mexican politics--the mal gobierno-- conspired to gut any pro-Indian legislation and propelled the Zapatistas on a new quest to create the kind of autonomous institutions that the Mexican state has denied them. The struggle of the Zapatistas during these past years, writes Ross, "has been a dramatic and inspiring effort to make this other world possible."
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