The War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000

By John Ross John Ross is a celebrated chronicler of Mexico's indigenous Zapatista rebels whose January 1st - 1994 uprising (in the first hours of the North American Free Trade Agreement) set off a chain of events that continues to challenge the corporate globalization of the planet. In The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 - Ross records the rebel experience from its earliest days through the Mexican presidential election in July 2000 - a saga Ross began in his American Book Award-winning Rebellion From the Roots (1994). In The War Against Oblivion - John Ross celebrates daily life in Zapatista autonomous communities; details six years of treachery by the Mexican government and military against the Mayan rebels; draws a comprehensive portrait of Subcomandante Marcos - a legend in his own time; explores US involvement on both sides of the Zapatista struggle; and records Zapatista opposition to globalization and how it led to the Battle of Seattle. A master of narrative - John Ross's style is described as lively and detailed by the New York Review of Books. Ross - a poet - breathes life into stories of Mexico's agrarian poor. The result: The War Against Oblivion is both a comprehensive analysis of the world's most unorthodox guerrilla movement and a stirring account of the Zapatistas' struggle for justice. John Ross has a four decade-long working relationship with Mexico. The author of The Annexation of Mexico - From the Aztecs to the IMF and the American Book Award-winning Rebellion From the Roots - Ross's latest work The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles - 1994-2000 - a detailed account of the native rebellion in Chiapas state - is the fruit of six years of freelance coverage of that momentous uprising. John Ross is a Latin American corespondent who regularly contributes to the Los Angeles Weekly and San Francisco Bay Guardian. A novelist (Tonatiuh's People - a Novel of the Mexican Cataclysm) and poet (jazzmexico) as well as a social activist - John Ross is a new John Reed covering a new Mexican revolution (La Jornada.) (353 pages - October 2000) For more information - visit Global Exchange's Mexico Campaign.