History of Latin America
Week 13: Revisiting Revolution

Mon:

NO CLASS - Easter Holiday

Wed:
Class Discussion of Montejo

Fri:

The Zapatistas

Readings:

Montejo, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village

MOVIE NIGHT: Wednesday at 7:30, Marquette Hall 300 (NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE!!)
Carlos Diegues , "Bye Bye Brasil" (Brazil, 1980)

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

Thanks to Kevin Seifert for this article on Santiago Alvarez, convicted of conspiring to possess arms in his quest to overthrow the Cuban government, in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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).

A story from The Economist on native anti-globalization movements in the Andes

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.