Mexico
This collection contains materials about Mexico, the legitimacy of the US-Mexican border, guerrilla movements in Mexico, NAFTA, the drug war and more.
Documents
The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas
Just before dawn on New Year's Day 1994, armed Mayan Indians declared war on the government. They immediately seized eight towns in Chiapas and set in motion events that ripped away a facade of prosperity and stability to reveal 'the other Mexico'. They demanded land, public services and Indian autonomy - the right to communally own and farm land. They called themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). This documentary features in-depth interviews with people from the EZLN, among them Subcommandante Marcos, with Bishop Samuel Ruiz from San Cristobal de las Casas, who is an outspoken practitioner of liberation theology and human rights activist. And all other sorts of actors in the conflict: peasants on the estates they have occupied, angry ranchers forced from their land, church activists, conservative Catholics, government officials, and the notorious 'guardias blancas', the private army of the landowners. THE SIXTH SUN portrays an epic confrontation pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government forces in Mexico poorest state, Chiapas. The film raises important questions as to what is to be judged expendable in the rush to global economic integration - whether the destruction of whole peoples and cultures that have survived over centuries is simply to be accepted as the price of 'progress'.
Posters from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
Publisher: The Galeria de la Raza / Studio 24Year: 1979Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Mexico
Exhibition pamphlet from exhibition at Galeria de la Raza. Includes the article THE MEXICAN MOVIE POSTER: Art, Myth, Illusion, Deception by Rupert Garcia.