loppear reviewed Basta! by George Allen Collier
Good on pre-conditions to Zapatistas
3.0 stars
By an anthropologist studying in Chiapas Mexico over the decades prior to 1994, background social movements and economic history of the area, highlighting: colonial/post-colonial development and extraction in highlands vs jungle; role of the Catholic Church and labor organizing in setting up indigenous/peasant movement; global export markets, booms and busts in agriculture and oil and how the Mexican state subsidized or undermined local subsistence relationships in the 1970s and 80s.