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Eight volunteers converge to help campesinos build a water system in Chiapas—a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals to assert their autonomy. Outsiders question the movement they've come so far to support—and each other—when forced into a world so unlike the poetic communiqués of Subcomandante Marcos—a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism, and shifting loyalties to the movement. The quiet dignity of the local compañeros and echoes of B. Traven, Joseph Conrad, and Albert Camus round out this epic yarn.
Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico, and is the author of Clandestines.
Ramor Ryan is an Irish writer and translator living in Chiapas, Mexico. His first book, Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile, was published in 2006.
Prelude: Bridge Across the Jungle
I. Journey into the Desert of Solitude
i.Theatre of Action
ii.Enter the Waterboys and Girls of Solidarity
iii.Journey into the Desert of Solitude
iv.Mapping the Cartography of Thirst
v.Subversive Activities.
II . Trench Warfare
i. The work begins
ii.‘Hideous Indian Women’
iii.Digging with Conrad
iv.Age of Christ: Reflections of a Water Worker
v.Trench Warfare
vi.An Unexpected Visitor
vii.The End of the Tether
viii.Pirate Evacuation
III . Heart of the Community
i. Road Hazards and Group Psychosis
ii. Cement Tanks and Tigers
iii. 40 Degrees in a Simmering Cauldron
iv. Heart of the Community
v.Springtime in Zapatistalandia
Aftermath
i.Dues Machina, Unwelcome
ii.Too Long a Sacrifice
iii.The Journey Itself is Enough