Let us be clear: although the author's reporting on the Zapatista movement (EZLN) and his personal interviews with Subcomandante Marcos and other insurgent leaders are at the heart of this book, this is not a book about the Zapatista uprising, nor even primarily about Chiapas. Given its title, the book begins rather disorientingly with a diatribe against the US Postal Service, the Bell Atlantic telephone company, and the New York utilities provider Consolidated Edison. When on page two we find the author yelling “Down with Bell Atlantic,” after paying his long overdue phone bill at a Bell Atlantic office on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the reader is set up to expect an off-kilter polemic against BIG BUSINESS.