History of Latin America
Week 12: Native Americans and 'Neoliberalism'

Lecture outline
Readings: **Vargas Llosa, "Questions of Conquest" ; Subcomandante Marcos, "The Long Journey from Despair to Hope"

Quiz #4 Tuesday!!

In the weeks following the Acteal massacre, women took on the military in Chiapas. Above left, the community of Galeana in the autonomous community Francisco Gomez chases out soldiers (see the supportive report from Global Exchange). Above right, a photograph from X'oyep, Chiapas, by Pedro Valtierra, published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, 1-17-98.

The official Zapatista website

A different, middle class and primarily mestizo movement protesting the neoliberal policies of the 1980s and '90s in Mexico: the Barzonistas (click here for their official website in Spanish).

The Guatemalan tourist board site

An interesting site by Ted Fischer, Dept. of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University, on the Kayapo of Brazil's assertion of their position in the Amazon rainforest.