From: "ddbriones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 7, 2008 5:49:12 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [narconews] Bricker: Review of "The Fire and the Word: A
History of the Zapatista Movement"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
September 7, 2008
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Dear Colleague:
Since 1997 Gloria Muñoz has been researching the indigenous Zapatista
Movement in the
Southern Mexican state of Chiapas. In 2003 she released the results
in the Spanish-
language book titled 20 y 10: El Fuego y la Palabra. Now being
released under the name,
The Fire and the Word. Readers now have the opportunity to read
Muñoz' "intimate details
about the EZLN's initial organizing process" and much more, in English.
Narco News' Kristin Bricker writes of the book:
"While English-speakers had to wait five long years to read it, Muñoz
made The Fire and
the Word worth the wait. The English translation updates the Spanish
version, including
new chapters and pictures of Zapatista history up through the Other
Campaign in 2006.
"…The insurgents also discuss their seemingly suicidal decision to
declare war on the
Mexican government on January 1, 1994. Comandante Abraham says, 'We
didn't think that
we were going to live; we thought that most likely we would fall and
that others would
continue the struggle. We didn't think there would be people to help
us.'
"…Rather than simply regurgitating tired stories about Zapatismo,
Muñoz uses her book
as a tool. She recently completed a book tour in the United States.
She traveled from
California to New York, meeting with grass roots organizations,
adherents to the EZLN's
Sixth Declaration, and Zapatista sympathizers."
Read the rest of the review online at Narco News:
http://www.narconews.com
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