Conversations with Don Durito
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This book began in 1994, when Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a 10-year-old girl from Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. The ensuing collection of related tales about the warrior-beetle, narrated by his pipe-smoking, black-ski-masked human squire is an extraordinary account for the general reader of current global political struggle. Marcos created a humorous fictitious character, Don Durito, a beetle with Quixotic fantasies which regards Marcos as his Sancho Panza. In this book, Marcos creates a new political genre, so-called postdata: ironical commentaries which he affixes to his formal communiques or declarations. In one of them he even offers to perform a striptease for government negotiators. 'We are the product of 500 years of struggle...They Mexican government] don't care that we have nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a roof over our heads; no land, no work, no health care, no food, no education... nor is there peace nor justice for ourselves and our children. But today, we say Enough Is Enough ' First EZLN declaration of war, December 31st 1993 The Zapatistas are not Marxist, Rightists, or Anarchists. They seek not to replace one infrastructure of powe
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1570271186
ISBN13:9781570271182
Release Date:November 2005
Publisher:Autonomedia
Length:332 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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