Zapatistas! Making Another World Possible

John Ross
November 2006     ISBN: 1560258748

In his third volume on the Zapatista uprising, John Ross concludes a journey he began in The War Against Oblivion--Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 with a frontline account of the past six years of the insurgency, and a brilliant eyewitness portrayal.

In the wake of the 2000 election of Vicente Fox, Mexico's first opposition president in seven decades, hopes soared that a Zapatista-inspired Indian rights law would become the law of the land. But the usual dark forces in Mexican politics--the mal gobierno-- conspired to gut any pro-Indian legislation and propelled the Zapatistas on a new quest to create the kind of autonomous institutions that the Mexican state has denied them. The struggle of the Zapatistas during these past years, writes Ross, "has been a dramatic and inspiring effort to make this other world possible."

John Ross is the author of the acclaimed memoir Murdered by Capitalism, which was praised by Thomas Pynchon and chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Based in Mexico City for the last two decades, Ross's reporting has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Nation, Texas Observer, and Counterpunch, to name a few. He is the winner of an Upton Sinclair Award and an American Book Award. His books include Rebellion from the Roots, The Annexation of Mexico and the novel Tonatiuh's People.

John Ross is the author of the acclaimed memoir Murdered by Capitalism, which was praised by Thomas Pynchon and chosen as a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. Based in Mexico City for the last two decades, Ross's reporting has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Nation, Texas Observer, and Counterpunch, to name a few. He is the winner of an Upton Sinclair Award and an American Book Award. His books include Rebellion from the Roots, The Annexation of Mexico and the novel Tonatiuh's People.