A rich land, a poor people
politics and society in modern Chiapas
by Thomas Benjamin
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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History, Politics and government, Elite (Social sciences), Agricultural industries, Economic conditions, Economic policy, Social conditions, Peasantry, Political activity, Peasants, Chiapas (mexico), Mexico, economic conditions, Mexico city (mexico), social conditions, Mexico, economic policy, Mexico, politics and government, Peasants, mexico, Mexico, social conditionsPlaces
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A rich land, a poor people: politics and society in modern Chiapas
1996, University of New Mexico Press
in English
- Rev. ed. / with a foreword by Lorenzo Meyer.
0826317138 9780826317131
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A rich land, a poor people: politics and society in modern Chiapas
1989, University of New Mexico Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0826311326 9780826311320
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-355) and index.
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