A rich land, a poor people
politics and society in modern Chiapas
Rev. ed. / with a foreword by Lorenzo Meyer.
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Author
Publication
1996 - University of New Mexico Press, Albuqueque, New Mexico
Language
English
Word Count
94,000 words, Guess
Page Count
376 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL804733M
- ISBN-100826317138
- OCLC Control Number33132480
- OCLC Control Numberrichlandpoorpeop0000benj_s1h3
- Library of Congress Control Number95041262
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- Goodreads639364
- LibraryThing8768743
Classifications
- DDC338.972/75
- LCCHC137.C47 B46 1996
Description
Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico, burst into international news in January 1994. Several thousand insurgents, given a voice in the communiques of Subcomandante Marcos, took control of the capital and other key towns and held the Mexican army and government at bay for weeks. Proclaiming themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, they captured both land and headlines. Worldwide, people wanted to know the answer to one question: why had revolutionaries taken over a Mexican state? No other study of Chiapas answers that question as thoroughly as does this book. Benjamin delineates the basic continuity in the history of Chiapas from the 1890s to 1995. The uprising and government's armed occupation of the state are but the latest violent episodes in a region that is now and has always been a rich land worked by poor people. By studying the impoverishment of the laboring class in Chiapas, Benjamin addresses how the Chiapan elite survived the Revolution of 1910 and remain in control of the state's development and destiny.
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