Reviews for Nuestra ARMA Es Nuestra Palabra

The average rating for Nuestra ARMA Es Nuestra Palabra based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-09 00:00:00 Dario Tarin Tons of Marcos's strange communiques from the Lacandon Jungle, from 1994 through 2000. The first half of the book are the (for Marcos) more or less standard reports about Zapatistas actions and invitations to encuentros etc. The second half as the Don Durito the Beatle stories and the truly excellent Viejo Antonio stuff, a mix of Popul Vuh and post-everything rebellion. I wish the editors had just left everything in chronological order because reading one kind of missive for while gets a bit tiring. blah blah, dignity, blah blah, 500 years, blah blah, neo-liberalism, sudden burst of poetry. Marcos didn't write it like that. He'd send out some heavy, serious call to "arms" and then get all weird and 'deep Mexican' in the next. I don't think it does his writing any service to split it up by category like this. Also, they could have used a better copy editor. I am tired of typos. Publishing industry: PAY FOR EDITORS. Can anyone recommend a collection or a history that would take me from 2000 to 2010 with everyone's favorite central american guerillas?

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-23 00:00:00 Barry Elston On New Year's Day 1995, the day the NAFTA Agreement came into force, a group of indigenous Mexicans, manly armed with wooden guns, occupied five towns in the southern state of Chiapas: they were fighting to be seen, yet their leader wore a ski mask and his face was never seen. The politics of the Zapatista rebellion (named for the national liberation leader in the early 20th century) are quite brilliant and paradoxical - a fight to be left alone, a fight to be seen, a fight to demand that Mexico lives up to the provisions of its constitution. Subcommandante Marcos - the leader wasn't even the commandante, that is the people - is a writer of great power whose work presents some of the potent critiques of contemporary neo-liberalism. These are politics for the new millennium that are designed to build space and world for the marginalised, the subaltern, the unseen, the indigenous people. These are politics that are against neo-liberalism, against the state, against the power of the plutocrats, the bourgeoisie, the old families who hold power because they have always held power, and politics that are for localities, for the people, for democracy and the right to be: this is a way of being indigenist that challenges the basic claims of bourgeois democracies and also refuses to presuppose a single answer for us all.