The War Against Oblivion The Zapatista Chronicles
by
John Ross
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Edition: paper, 353 pages
Dimensions: 6x9
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 U.S. involvement on both sides of the Zapatista struggle; and ? record 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.)
