About the author: Robert Porter has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a professor of political science and coordinator of the Model United Nations Program at Ventura College in California
2002 0-7734-7197-9 In this volume, Dr. Robert M. Porter discusses the reaction of Coffee farmers in Rural Mexico to the globalizing economy of the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of free trade agreements in North America. Dr. Porter considers the changing agricultural and economic conditions that the farmers to revolt against the new economic conditions.