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" ... Written in 1994, Harvey’s book relies on historical analysis of Mexico’s evolving economic policies to put the Zapatista uprising into context. Harvey explains that the Zapatistas, unlike other revolution movements, did not want to overthrow the government, rather their goal was “shifting the balance of forces in favor of popular and democratic movements.” The Zapatistas, feeling abandoned by Mexico’s policymakers, wanted to “make the government accountable to the people” In the 1980s, Mexico’s modernization program was straying from many of the rural policies that the PRI had initially favored. As Salinas shifted Mexico’s focus towards global markets, he also canceled many programs and severed many historic ties between the central government and rural residents. Harvey argues, “For many campesinos in Chiapas and other regions these [reforms] have meant increasing exclusion from markets, abandonment by the state and the political manipulation of limited social spending.” Harvey carefully explains the reduction of state involvement in small-farm agrarian production and argues, “The transition to the free market in rural Mexico was governed by macroeconomic decision-making far removed from the realities of the campesinos.” Through documenting the way the government dismantled many rural programs and transitioned towards Salinas’s income-subsidizing Solidaridad program, Harvey argues, “The Chiapas rebellion implies the need for changes at many different levels of Mexico’s social, economics and political order.” Harvey, who has a PhD in Government, focuses on the concentrated and powerful pressure for reform in Mexico. Not as deeply entrenched in the particular details of Chiapas as Collier or Womack, he appears to be far less optimistic about the potential impact for the Zapatista movement. At most he sees the movement as having the potential to open the pathway for new discussion about the need for democratic accountability in Mexico. “If this happens, the Chiapas rebellion will not have been in vain,” he argues. ... "