ZAPATA'S REVENGE
           Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
        Tom Barry is the author or coauthor of numerous books on Latin
America
and agricultural issues including Roots of Rebellion:Land and Hunger in
CentralAmerica (South End Press), The Great Divide: The Challenge of
U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990's (Grove/Atantic Monthly Press), Feeding
the
Crisis:U.S. Food Aid and Agricultural Policies in Central America
(University
of Nebraska). He is the Founder of the Interhemispheric Resource Center in
Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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"This clearly-written work...should be read by anyone interested in
understanding Mexico's crucial, underlying problems."

                                Library Journal, Roderic A. Camp

"Barry's compelling call for peasant participation participation in
strengthening self-sufficiency offers detailed evidence that development
fromm
above is not possible."

                                David Barkin, Professor of Economics
                     Metropolitan University, Xochimilco, Mexico City

Zapata's Reverange reminds us thtat's crisis in Mexico is not new and
transcends its highly publicized financial difficulties. Beyond the
newspapers headlines are ongoing issues of land use, agricultural
productivity, and the fate of indigenous peasants.
Tom Berry provides a thoughtful and objective critique of one of Mexico's
most serious economic issues. Barry not only looks at subsistence
agriculture
in Mexico but also at the impact of domestic and international market and
the
relationship of economic changes to political violence in southern Mexico.
The
crisis and rebellion in Chiapas is the same one confronting most Mexico
and
the Third World.
Barry views the crises that confronts Mexico as alarming evidence of the
neoliberal and free trade policies'inability to foster broad economic
development. He argues that such strategies have resulted in reduced food
security, enviromental destruction, increased rural-urban polarization,
depopulation of peasant communtities, and social and political
instability.
This book offers investigative research and analysis that goes to the
heart of
the development challenge faced by Mexico and other Latin American
nations.


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