Tracing the path chosen by the Zapatistas and the Bolivian cocaleros towards social change, Leonidas Oikonomakis' multi-layered book brings to light unknown aspects of the history of the two movements, their similarities and differences, to highlight the critical circumstances that determined their course. Oikonomakis' study delves in an unprecedented way into the process through which the movements arrive at their strategic choices, thoroughly exploring the parameters that influence and shape their decisions. The book you hold in your hands is the fruit of an exciting 8-year field research, which highlights testimonies and events that have been paradoxically ignored by the official bibliography. An edition that will excite both social and political scientists as well as the general reader who wishes to discover the history of (revolutionary and non-revolutionary) movements in Latin America.