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This book reviews the implications that the work of the French philosopher Louis Althusser had in Mexico, in the journey from the late 1960s to the collapse of Marxist discourses in public life. Unlike other works, some intellectual receptions hitherto little addressed are exposed, such as those of the philosophy of science.

Intro -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Forms of Land Utilization -- 3. Land and the Family -- 4. Land Inheritance in Apas -- 5. Soil Erosion in Chamula -- 6. Marginality -- 7. Ethnicity -- 8. The Refuge-Region Hypothesis -- 9. National Indianism and Indian Nationalism -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodology -- Bibliography -- Index.

On Zapatista politics, failure of the government to honor the San Andreas Accords recognizing Indian rights and culture, and the Mar. 21, 1999 national referendum on Indian rights, withdrawal of the military from Chiapas, and other issues.

Programa Nacional de Solidaridad (PRONASOL). Examines changing relations between regional PRONASOL and Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) officials; focuses on regional politics in transition from dominant-party regimes, and conflict within former political hierarchies; since 1994, chiefly. Covers Puebla, Nayarit, Tamaulipas, and Baja, California; some focus on the National Action Party (PAN), and the Secretariat of Social Development (SEDESOL).

In his informative introduction to the volume, translator Everard Meade orients the reader to the broader armed conflict in Mexico and explains the unique role of Sinaloa at its epicenter. Reports on border politics and infamous drug traffickers may obscure the victims' suffering. The Taken helps ensure that their stories will not be forgotten or suppressed.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II - ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE. -- CHAPTER III. - THE TRAGEDY ON THE LONELY ROAD. -- CHAPTER IV. - GARRETT HAD A PRESENTIMENT OF HIS FATE. -- CHAPTER V. - AT THE BAR OF JUSTICE. -- CHAPTER VI. - RUMORS OF THREATS. -- CHAPTER VII. - THE LIFE OF GARRETT. -- CHAPTER VIII. - THE REIGN OF THE "GUN MEN." -- CHAPTER IX. - BLOODY DONA ANA COUNTY. -- CHAPTER X. - HISTORY OF BLOODY DEEDS. -- CHAPTER XI. - THE MAN OF THE HOUR-PAT GARRETT. -- CHAPTER XII. - THE ETHICS OF THE "DROP." -- CHAPTER XIII. - GARRETT'S FIGHT WITH AN OUTLAW. -- CHAPTER XIV - BONES OF HIS VICTIM AS EVIDENCE. -- CHAPTER XV. - THE BLOODY "CATTLE WAR." -- CHAPTER XVI - ON THE TRACK OF THE KID. -- CHAPTER XVII. - TWO COWARDLY "BAD MEN." -- CHAPTER XVIII - CAPTURE OF THE KID AND HIS GANG. -- CHAPTER XIX. - A BLUSTERING MOB AT LAS VEGAS. -- CHAPTER XX THE KID IS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED. -- CHAPTER XXI - WANDERINGS OF THE OUTLAW. -- CHAPTER XXII. - WILLIAM H. BONNEY, ALIAS "BILLY THE KID." -- CHAPTER XXIII. - BILLY MAKES HIS FIRST RAID. -- CHAPTER XXIV. - A "BUNCO" HORSE RACE. -- CHAPTER XXV - BILLY MAKES ANOTHER KILLING. -- CHAPTER XXVI - BAD LUCK, BUT BROKE A MONTE GAME. -- CHAPTER XXVI. - NOT OF THE "YELLOW KID" TYPE. -- CHAPTER XXVII. - THE LAST SCENE OF ALL. -- CHAPTER XXVIII. - PEACE AND PROSPERITY NOW REIGN IN LINCOLN. -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.

The above two quotations embody disparate worldviews with regard to the neoliberal project that has enveloped much of Latin America in the past decade. Globalization intensifies the region's integration into the world economy through neoliberal reforms such as market opening, privatizations, and rationalization of production. These reforms are transforming rural societies, raising important questions concerning policies that selectively favor new strategies for capital investment and production oriented toward market expansion, as they marginalize surplus workers and "inefficient" forms of production. This paper contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the contradictions brought about by globalization and local people's struggles to resist its consequences. An ample amount of social science research has materialized that focuses on the impact of globalization, neoliberalism, and other hegemonizing forces upon local peoples. Solid consensus has emerged that these transformations in production and marketing place local societies at increasing risk and deny them the most basic rights to social justice (Carton de Grammont 1995, Gates 1993, Gledhill 1995, Otero 1996, Phillips 1998). Clearly, while neoliberalism seeks to resolve problems of international capital accumulation, as an economic model it fails to address the increasing poverty, social disparities, and political repression that inevitably accompany such transformations (Carton de Grammont 1995). Economic triage (Gates 1993), premised on an ideology of efficiency and rationalization of production, constitutes a key strategy utilized to deny credit to less efficient producers and to dismiss large numbers of "excess" workers. This hegemony, exercised through exclusion and marginalization of small-scale producers, poses an important challenge for social science analysis. As Phillips (1998:194) rightly points out, by "providing concrete proof that neoliberalism has a negative impact on people's lives, the power of neoliberalism may be dismantled. But does ...

List of names, with annotations and figures, relating to the expedition from Goliad, Bexar, to the capital of Monclova. 2 pp. (handwritten roster)