Homage to Chiapas

by Bill Weinberg

Book Overview

The new Zapatistas in Chiapas have served as a catalyst for revolutionary indigenous movements across Mexico, pioneering a new model of resistance and posing a powerful threat to the stability of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859847196
• ISBN13: 9781859847190
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Required reading

This book is required reading for anyone interested in the effects of NAFTA and globalization in general. Weinberg is a responsible journalist whose work on this and other stories can be read daily on www.ww4report.com/blog

insightful

Bill does an extraordinary job depicting the Zapatista rebellion and the political scene. excellent corrolation between struggles in different states in Mexico and Cental and South America.

veracity and insight

This book ties together over 500 years of Mayan history and places the current conflict in its accurate historical and cultural setting. Unlike many of the current videos and some books that have been published on Chiapas and surrounding areas of Mexico since the Zapatista uprising, the author has done the extensive research needed to sort out a very complex conflict. I have traveled much in this area of the world and I immediately recognized the social and political landscape described within these pages. I cannot say this about all the books in the recent spate of Chiapas and Mayan scholarship.I've followed Bill Weinberg's writing for years and have the highest regard for the veracity and insight of his work...