Mexico Madness: Manifesto for a Disenchanted Generation, by Colombian journalist Eduardo García Aguilar, examines the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico,led by its charismatic poet warrior Subcomandante Marcos, as a unique response to the North American Free Trade Agreement, globalism and the very idea of progress. At the turn of the millenium, writes Garcia Aguilar, "We are treading on a new cultural, economic, technological and political tectonic plate."

His coverage of the Zapatistas and his own travels through the cities, towns and jungle of Chiapas lead the author through an autobiographical inquiry into the past, the present and the very future of the Americas. He asks what it means to be Latin American in face of the "poorly named First World, a dictatorship of technocrats and accountants that wishes to convert us into a great factory of Puritan zombies."

Mr. García Aguilar, who currently heads the Latin American desk in Paris for Agence France-Presse, spent almost 20 years in Mexico as a correspondent and covered a wide range of political, social and economic issues. He has also had a long and distinguished literary career in Latin America and Spain. His novel Boulevard of Heroes was translated into English and published by Latin American Literary Review Press.

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