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Westfield. 1994. Open Magazine Pamphlet Series. 1st Edition. Pamphlet # 30. Very Good in Wrappers. 1884519067. paperback. keywords: Politics Chiapas Mexico Revolution. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Starting in Chiapas-‘. So when the 800 Zapatistas poured into the municipal offices here, opened the police and property archives and set them on fire, and when another thousand maybe two thousand of their comrades simultaneously seized five other nearby towns, opening the food warehouses to the poor, chasing out and in some cases killing the local police, dismantling another town hall stone by stone with sledge-hammers, yet another with axes and saws, and then fought the Mexican Army to a standstill for more than a week, they were not acting out some pathetic revolutionary retablo left over from the Central American cataclysms of the Eighties. No. Precisely because the EZLN chose San Cristobal as its major theater of operations, because the timing of the uprising coincided with the implementation of NAFIA, and certainly because of the complex nature of the EZLN and what it is fighting for, this Chiapas rebellion is much much more than an Indian Uprising, far more significant than a recycled Marxist guerrilla movement. The shots fired in Chiapas in January signal the End of the End of History. Rather than the final rattle on the snake of revolution, Chiapas is the first armed battle against the Global Market and simultaneously-in a way Americans cannot grasp-for Democracy. inventory #31269.
