Decentering the RegimeSince 1989 an indigenous political movementthe Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitn. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented political and cultural pathovercoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s. Rubin traces the history and rise to power of this grassroots