1995-10-01a- CIA Conference Report: THE CHALLENGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER IN THE 1990S GEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES 01-Oct-95

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Arevalo-Jimenez, Nelly and Andrew L. Cousins, 30 years of experience working in Chiapas, Collier
"False Promises," Cultural survival Quarterly, 16:1 places the Zapatista rebellion of 1994 in the context of
(Winter 1992), pp. 10-13. An account of Venezuelan conflict over access to land at the local level. This
Government policies toward the Yanomami people book is current up to the August 1994 presidential
and the creation of the Casiquiare Biosphere Reserve election in Mexico.
in 1991. Indigenous people were not included in the
planning phases of the reserve, and it is unclear how Dennis, Philip A., Intervillage Conflict in Oaxaca.
they will be affected by it. The authors' belief that the New Brunswick and London, Rutgers University
park will be difficult to protect seems borne out by Press, 1987. A study of the origins of conflict over
recent invasions by Brazilian miners. land between two Zapotec Indian villages. Conflict is
seen as a device that has served to isolate Indian com-
Burbach, Roger and Peter Rosset, Chiapas and the munities and to make them dependent on the state for
Crisis of Mexican Agriculture. Policy Brief. Oakland, resolution of land disputes.
CA: Institute for Food and bevelopment Policy,
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10 essays that deal with various aspects of Latin
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8:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 6-8. A brief report on Indian par- rilla movements, and Nash on Bolivian mining com-
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Mexico and efforts to develop a national Indian elec- conflict.
toral strategy. The article discusses voting in Chiapas
in August 1994. Ewen, Alexander, ed. "Chiapas: Challenging History,
Akwe:kon: A Journal of Indigenous Issues, 11:2
Campbell, Howard, "Juchitin:The Politics of Cultural (Summer 1994). A special issue of the journal dedi-
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Indian political party in a Mexican Indian community Popular Mobilization and Peasant Politics in Mexico
and of the government's reaction to its election vic- and Central America," Latin American Research
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the causes of ethnic conflict in Mexico. nine books, including four in Spanish and one in
English on Mexican campesino (peasant) movements.
Choque, Maria Eugenia and Carlos Mamani, "Recon- The author attributes most conflict to agricultural
structing the Ayllu: Toward Renewal of the Bolivian modernization, which has strengthened powerful eco-
State, Abya Yala News, 8:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 9, 33. A nomic interests while causing a general decline in
brief but timely analysis of the Indian political move- rural living standards. Thus, "{e]thnic divisions, gen-
ment in Bolivia. der issues, factional and familial rivalries, and plain
machismo may generate conflict and shape clashes
Collier, George A., with Elizabeth Lowery whose ultimate sources lie elsewhere."
Quaratiello, Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion
in Chiapas. Oakland, CA: Institute for Food and
Development Policy, 1994. An anthropologist with
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