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Mexico's southernmost state, Chiapas, is a land of towering myths and extravagant beauty. Home to the largest concentration of indigenous people in the Americas, its history is marked by brutal oppression and bloodshed that extends to this day. Veteran journalist and author Worth H. Weller, who has covered conflict in Central America for two decades, breaks through the fogs of time in this book of rare insights and photographs to explore the reality of the modern Maya and their unique Zapatista revolutionary movement. An eye-witness epilogue draws a startling parallel between the cultural and economic issues that face the Maya and those that face their Sioux brethren in South Dakota at the close of the millennium.
About the author
Years of extensive travel have fueled Worth Weller's quest for knowledge and understanding of the triumphs and struggles faced by people with different cultural backgrounds. The Contra War in Nicaragua, the aftermath of the civil war in El Salvador and the ongoing conflicts in Chiapas were captured in prize-winning photographs by Weller. His affinity for the people of Central America is a result of the events he witnessed during that time. Weller is an accomplished writer and photojournalist who has received numerous honors for his articles from the Hoosier State Press Association and the Indiana Society for Professional Journalists. His photo series on the modern Ku Klux Klan received the top journalism prize in Indiana in 1996. He started his journalism career as a United States Army Signal Corps photographer, covering the Cold War in Europe in the early '70s. A graduate of Duke University with majors in Sociology and English, Weller and his family currently reside in North Manchester, IN, where he has served 25 years as editor of an award-winning aggressive weekly newspaper.
