Zapatista Spring : Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity

Eight volunteers converge to help __campesinos__ build a water system in Chiapas—a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. Outsiders question the movement they've come so far to support—and each other—when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos—a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local __compañeros__ and echoes of B. Traven, Joseph Conrad, and Albert Camus round out this epic yarn. **Ramor Ryan** is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and is the author of __Clandestines__. Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in Chiapas—a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. Outsiders question the movement they've come so far to support—and each other—when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos—a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local compañeros and echoes of B. Traven, Joseph Conrad, and Albert Camus round out this epic yarn. Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and is the author of Clandestines . Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in chiapas-as-a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. These outsiders come to question the movement they've traveled so far to support-and each other-when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiques of Subcomandante Marcos-a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local companeros and echoes of B. Traven, Conrad, and Camus, round out this epic yarn. Book jacket "Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in Chiapas--a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. These outsiders come to question the movement they've traveled so far to support--and each other--when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos--a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement."--Page 4 of cover The revolution or revolutionary charity? All is not as it seems deep inside the Zapatista rebellion.