The War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles

by John Ross

Book Overview

John Ross is a celebrated chronicler of Mexico's indigenous Zapatista rebels whose January 1st, 1994 uprising - in the first hours of the North American Free Trade Agreement - set off a chain of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567511740
• ISBN13: 9781567511741
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Common Courage Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Wealth of Information

John Ross provides an amazingly well researched and extensive recent history of chiapas. An encyclopedia to the Post Uprising History of Chiapas.

Ross lets the truth shine through

I met John a few years when he'd just publish "The Annexation of Mexico." To me, this was essential to understand this crazy, amiable gringo who was so interested in Mexico and loved it so much. Now I know. Hats off for John!! Since the Zapatista uprising many lines have been written on Chiapas. Essays, criticisms, pseudo-investigative reports, and many more were produced by Mexican, US, French writers. I dare say that, at least, compared to all non-Mexican recounts of the uprising timeline, Ross' is the best. Plenty of information, witty storytelling, tongue-in- cheek analysis of the corrupt political arena and its US counterpart (accomplices that is). Ross shuts up all potential (cynical) critics of his pro- Zapatista point of view by putting the uprising on a Mexican History perspective. If you want to know more about Chiapas, beyond the mainstream media blackout, this IS the book. You will understand why the antiglobalization protests perhaps have their roots in that Jan. 1, 1994.