num_pages: 320
description: In 1994, from the Lacandon jungle, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos replied to a ten-year-old girl in Mexico City who had sent him a drawing. In his response, Marcos conjured up a first fable introducing the beetle and knight-errant "Don Durito de la Lacandon." The ensuing output of Durito-related communiques and tales comprise a broad discourse of the Zapatista struggle, revealing their organizational history, their critique of traditional politics, and the reasons for their opposition to neoliberalism. These elements have helped make the Zapatistas an exemplary reference in the international movement against capitalist globalization. Conversations with Durito includes all the Durito stories issued to date, translated, annotated, and contextualized by the Accion Zapatista Editorial Collective, and illustrated by simpatico artists. Poetic, humorous, and imaginative, these fables provide an excellent introduction to the politics of globalization from the radical perspective of indigenous struggle. Contents i Prefaceii Translation and Editing Notesiv Acknowledgements1 Historical Overview STORIES FOR A SUFFOCATING NIGHT 41 The Story of Durito and Neoliberalism44 Durito Neoliberalism Seen From La Lacandona57 The Cave of Desire64 Durito Names Marcos His Squire71 Durito The Story of Neoliberalism and the Labor Movement79 Durito's May Day Postcard81 On Bullfighting, Detente and Rock87 Durito Neoliberalism and the Party-State System95 Durito Durito in Mexico City99 Durito's Return104 Durito Chaotic Theory of Economic Chaos111 Durito, Chibo the Killer Tarantula and the Plebiscite117 The Story of the Little Mouse and the Little Cat120 Of Trees, Transgressors and Odontology138 The Story of the Hot Foot and the Cold Foot144 On Love147 The Story of Dreams152 The Story of the Bay Horse160 Durito to Conquer Europe164 To Lady Civil Society169 The Riddle171 Durito on Cartoonists176 Durito Neoliberalism, History as a Tale . . . Badly Told184 Durito on Liberty186 Durito's Comment on Hunger189 Big Sharks and Little Fishes196 Presentation in Seven Voices Politics and Bolsas (Theirs and Ours) STORIES FOR A SLEEPLESS SOLITUDE 215 Love and the Calendar220 The Story of the Magical Chocolate Bunnies226 The Seashell and The Two People233 Forever Never236 The Hour of the Little Ones, Part The Return of . . .249 The Hour of the Little Ones, Part Those From Below STORIES OF VIGILANCE BY CANDLELIGHT 255 The Hour of the Little Ones, Part The Undocumented Others258 The Hour of the Little Ones, Part The Other . . .261 The Hour of the Little Ones, Part The Student Others266 The Story of the Air and the Night276 Off the La Realidad286 Durito.com288 The Other Player294 The Story of the Little Dented Car298 The Hand That Dreams When It Writes302 Chairs of Power and Butterflies of Rebellion314 Apples and the Zapatistas 316 Bibliography
language: English
title: Conversations With Don Durito: The Story of Durito and the Defeat of Neo-Liberalism
titlecomplete: Conversations With Don Durito: The Story of Durito and the Defeat of Neo-Liberalism
genres: Nonfiction, History, Politics
ratings_count: 87
publisher: Autonomedia