Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico

by Tom Barry, Harry Browne

Tom Barry views the crises that confront Mexico as alarming evidence of the incapacity of today's neoliberal and free trade policies to foster broad economic development. He explains that such strategies have resulted in reduced food security, environmental destruction, increased rural-urban polarization, depopulation of peasant communities, and social and political instability. This book offers personal interviews, investigative research, and analysis that goes to the heart of the development challenge faced by Mexico and other Latin American nations.

326 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

Reviews

[Petter Nordal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exceptionally thorough and readable treatment of Mexican agriculture and it's status in international trade and politics, this book was published after NAFTA had been in effect a year, but it's predictions about increasing food insecurity and rural poverty have been borne out.