Volume 42, Number 4 · March 2, 1995
The Shadow War
By Alma Guillermoprieto
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
by George Collier, by Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello, foreword by Peter Rosset
Food First Books, 183 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas
by John Ross
Common Courage Press, 424 pp., $29.95; $14.95 (paper)
EZLN: Documentos y comunicados documents in EZLN: Documentos y comunicados has recently been published in the US: Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, translated by Frank Bardacke, Leslie López, and the Watsonville, California, Human Rights Committee; introduction by John Ross, afterword by Frank Bardacke (Monthly Review Press, 1995).)
(A collection of the writings of Subcomandante Marcos.)
Mexico City: Ediciones Era; (An English translation of many of the, 326 pp., $13.20 (paper)
The peasant uprising in Chiapas that began in January 1994 has already generated many books, and more are in preparation. Most of the books, understandably, are fast turn-around jobs written in Spanish, and aimed at a local audience: round-ups of the first spate of newspaper articles and photographs; brief—often apocryphal—histories of the rebel movement; breathless I-was-there chronicles of mysterious interviews in the jungle; passionate attacks on and defenses of the rebels.
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