Author: Weinberg, Bill
Title: Homage to Chiapas : The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico
Description: London, Verso, 2000. orig. boards. 21x16cm, xxi,456 pp.. ill. maps, ports.. Minor rubbing. Some light bottom page-edge soil. VG. ¶ 'Homage to Chiapas' depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy now underway in an economically strategic nation. It analyzes the impact on Mexico's campesinos. From the Back Cover Homage to Chiapas vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy now underway in an economically strategic nation of nearly 100 million. Weinberg analyzes NAFTA's impact on Mexico's campesinos with on-the-spot reportage from Tabasco, where fishermen blockade state owned oil wells to protest local pollution, from Central Mexico where plans for a giant computer complex and golf course spark an Indian uprising, as well as from Chiapas, where he interviews Subcommander Marcos. Bill Weinberg is a correspondent of Native Americas, the quarterly journal of Cornell University's American Indian Studies Program. He is also editor at High Times the American counter-culture monthly, and a producer at New York's non-commercial WBAI Radio. An award winning journalist specializing in the environment and native issues, he is the author of War On The Land: Politics and Ecology in Central America" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Mexican Political History, Mexico Zapistas, Chiapas, Zapatista National, Liberation Army, Subcommander Marcos, Native Americans, Peasant Uprisings,