Paco Ignacio Taibo (II)

Subcomandante Marcos

Marcos (subcomandante.)

The highly anticipated surreal noir collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most feared revolutionary.

(what's Missing is Missing) : a Novel by Four Hands

The Uncomfortable Dead

For ten years a voice from deep within the Mexican jungle has inspired us to fight back.

Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

Ya Basta!

Don Durito de la Lacandona

A stylized reissue of the acclaimed, surreal noir collaboration between Mexico's greatest writer and its most courageous revolutionary.

In alternating chapters, enigmatic Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and crime writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with intersecting storylines. Those chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, where, amid a hallucinatory blend of different voices, we meet El'as, a Zapatista detective tasked with locating missing people. Taibo's chapters star his Coca-Cola-and-cigarette-consuming series detective H'ctor Belascoar'n Shayne: a PI specialising in cases stranger than reality. The two stories collide absurdly and dramatically in the sprawl of Mexico City. The ugly history of the city's political violence rears its head, and both detectives find themselves in an unlikely dance of death with forces at once criminal, historical, and political.

Since the 1994 uprisings in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the spokesman of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a masked rebel who calls himself Subcomandante Marcos, has become a symbol of revolt in the post-cold war era. Here are the words of Marcos, words that recast Mexican politics and revived rebel imaginations everywhere. They look back to the traditions of Indian resistance and the dormant ideals of the Mexican revolution; they look forward to political strategies, styles, and theories that challenge the dominance of capitalism. The Introduction by John Ross situates the Zapatistas in the context of Mexican history and the Afterword by Frank Bardacke discusses their language and politics, as well as their meaning for the U.S. left. This edition also includes an "exclusive" prologue by Subcomandante Marcos and his speech to the Zapatista's August 1994 national convention.

Shadows of Tender Fury

"Beautiful bilingual retelling for children of a folktale from Chiapas that explains how colors were created, why people differ in color and ways of thinking, and why the macau sports all the colors. Excellent translation; stunning illustrations. A remarkable book"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The Story of Colors

Subcommandante Marcos

Zapatista Stories

Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska asks: "Can a book explode like a bomb? Can it change minds? Should a government feel threatened? Do books bite and make others rabid?" In this book of art and revolutionary struggle, the answer is resoundingly, "Yes!"

Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution

Questions & Swords

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico)

Zapatistas

Since their first public actions in 1994, the Zapatistas have redefined the notion of revolutionary social change. Having launched what was initially an indigenous movement for "democracy, dignity and justice" in Mexico, they have grown to become the poetic heart of a decentralized international movement whose vision is another world is possible. Unconcerned with traditional modes of seizing power and instituting change from above, their effort has consistently been about listening, learning, and harnessing the power that comes from below, from communities and individuals. Their latest initiative is "The Other Campaign," a nationwide effort to meet with local resistance groups across Mexico and create new networks capable of challenging-and overcoming-the politics of power.

Otra Campaña

Comunicados del EZLN - 2000

"In 1994, from the Lacandon jungle, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a ten-year-old girl in Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. In his response, Marcos conjured up a first fable introducing the beetle and knight-errant "Don Durito de la Lacandon." The ensuing output of Durito-related communiques and tales comprise a broad discourse of the Zapatistas' struggle, revealing their organizational history, their critique of traditional politics, and the reasons for their opposition to neoliberalism. These elements have helped make the Zapatistas an exemplary reference in the international movement against capitalist globalization. Conversations with Durito includes all the Durito stories issued to date, translated, annotated, and contextualized by the Accion Zapatista Editorial Collective, and illustrated by simpatico artists. Poetic, humorous, and imaginative, these fables provide an excellent introduction to the politics of globalization from the radical perspective of indigenous struggle."--Publisher's website.

Stories of the Zapatistas and Neoliberalism

Conversations with Durito

The literary and poetic genius of Latin America’s greatest living writer/rebel. Since the publication of Our Word is Our Weapon – which Publishers Weekly described “as strong as dignity and as subtle as love” – Mexico’s enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of Mexico, from searing critiques of the U.S. war in Iraq, to clandestine radio broadcasts from the jungles of Chiapas, here is an amazing selection of writing that gives voice to the literary and poetic genius of Latin America's greatest living writer/rebel. Subcomandante Marcos is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas.

Marcos (subcomandante.)

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