Volume 46, Number 20 · December 16, 1999
Chiapas: The Indians' Prophet
By Enrique Krauze
Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader
by John Womack Jr.
New Press, 372 pp., $17.95 (paper)
Marcos: La genial impostura
by Bertrand De la Grange, by Maité Rico
Mexico City: Editorial Aguilar, 472 pp., 104 pesos
Religión, política y guerrilla en Las Cañadas de la Selva Lacandona
by Maria del Carmen Legorreta Díaz
Mexico City: Editorial Cal y arena, 333 pp., 91 pesos
Four days after the Zapatista uprising on New Year's Day 1994 in the impoverished state of Chiapas, a reporter interviewed one of its peasant soldiers, a prisoner of the Mexican army, and asked why he was fighting. 'I want there to be democracy, no more inequality,' he said. 'I am looking for a life worth living, liberation, just like God says.' John Womack Jr. uses these words as the epigraph to his book Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader.
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