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Zapata's revenge : free trade and the farm crisis in Mexico

Author: Tom Barry
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : South End Press, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Visions of a modernized and industrialized Mexico competing in the global market clash with the sobering reality of a desperate peasantry and falling agricultural production. The crisis and rebellion in Chiapas is the same one confronting most of Mexico and the Third World. Tom Barry views the crisis that confronts Mexico as alarming evidence of the incapacity of neoliberal and free trade policies to foster broad  Read more...
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Barry, Tom, 1950-
Zapata's revenge.
Boston, Mass. : South End Press, c1995
(OCoLC)652294610
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Barry
ISBN: 0896085007 9780896085008 089608499X 9780896084995
OCLC Number: 31900970
Description: 317 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. Reform, Revolution, and Counterreform --
Ch. 2. Populists and Technocrats --
Ch. 3. The International Context --
Ch. 4. NAFTA Pushes Agricultural Integration Forward --
Ch. 5. The Export Solution --
Ch. 6. Feeding Mexico --
Ch. 7. The End of Agrarian Reform --
Ch. 8. People of the Land --
Ch. 9. Call to Arms --
Ch. 10. On the Edge: Indians, Women, and Migrants --
Ch. 11. Sustaining Agriculture --
Conclusion: Lessons and Options.
Responsibility: by Tom Barry.

Abstract:

Visions of a modernized and industrialized Mexico competing in the global market clash with the sobering reality of a desperate peasantry and falling agricultural production. The crisis and rebellion in Chiapas is the same one confronting most of Mexico and the Third World. Tom Barry views the crisis that confronts Mexico as alarming evidence of the incapacity of neoliberal and free trade policies to foster broad economic development. Barry shows that such policies have resulted in reduced food security, environmental destruction, increased rural-urban polarization, depopulation of peasant communities, and social and political instability.

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