Gilbert Sanchez

    I just saw a film called The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas by Saul Landau. It's mostly on the Zapatistas, but it also covers NAFTA, Emilio Zapata, and Liberation Theology. The movie is a great view of what has happened to Mexico after NAFTA. A once thriving Mexican economy destroyed by Free Trade. 

    The Films Description:

Before dawn on New Year's Day, 1994, armed Mayan Indians in the Mexican
state of Chiapas declared war on the government, seizing eight towns
and sending shock waves through Mexico's political establishment.
Calling themselves the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, these
crudely armed peasants set in motion events that ripped away a modern
face of prosperity and stability to reveal "the other Mexico." Visually
interweaving the Mayan past and the Mexican Revolution with
contemporary reality, this documentary portrays an epic confrontation
pitting impoverished peasants against large landowners and government
forces in Mexico's poorest state. The video features interviews with
Subcommandante Marcos, the ski-masked "poet-warrior," as well as with
others in the Zapatista movement. Other protagonists include Bishop
Samuel Ruiz, Mexico's outspoken defender of indigeneous rights;
peasants on estates they have occupied; angry ranchers forced from
their land; conservative Catholics who charge the Bishop with inciting
revolution; government officials and army officers; and the notorious
guardias blancas, the landowners' private armies. 

    I highly recommend this movie… but it's impossible to find. I have a copy of it, and am willing to lend it out.