Neoliberalism

"Chiapas...bleeds coffee," wrote Subcommandante Marcos in 1992, before the Zapatista uprising. The far southern state of Chiapas is one of the poorest in Mexico, a state where the indigenous Maya peoples have repeatedly rebelled against  government policies that deny them land, deny the use of indigenous languages in education and government, and help wealthy absentee landowners extract the many resources of the state--petroleum, gas, hydroelectric power, cattle, food crops--and coffee.  One third of the coffee produced in Mexico is grown in Chiapas.