JAN MARTINEZ—Legend has it that Emiliano Zapata never died. History proves it every day. Almost a hundred years after his assassination, the figure of the revolutionary, general-in-chief of the Liberation Army of the South, continues to inflame the imagination of Mexicans. Proletarian, rebel and often visionary, Zapata (1879-1919) embodies the ideals of a troubled age like no other. His years of struggle and glory are those of a country at war with itself.
MEXICO & CHICANO CULTURE
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—This is a highly unusual film, a quiet, at times lyrical, other times creepy documentary on the small mansions —actually impressive mausoleums—where Mexico’s most notorious drug lords (and other victims of the drug war) lie at rest. Hauntingly, most of the residents in this city of the dead are extremely young. A meditation on culture and class, the images say a lot about the almost infinite ability of the poor to scrape a living under almost any circumstances, and about the people of Mexico’s unique attitude toward death and their apparent stubborn belief in an afterlife.
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Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism
23 minutes readELLEN BROWN—AMLO has continually vowed, however, not to raise taxes on the rich. Instead he has enlisted Mexico’s business magnates as investors in public-private partnerships, allowing him to avoid the “tequila trap” that brought down Argentina and Mexico itself in earlier years — getting locked into debt to foreign investors and the International Monetary Fund. Mexico’s business leaders seem happy to invest in the country, despite some slippage in GDP.
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Spanish Diplomats Being Held at the Mexican Embassy in Bolivia (Siege of the Mexican Embassy)
9 minutes readIt’s quite clear Washington gave the green light to the vile puppet regime it just installed in Bolivia to humiliate both Mexico and Spain, nations which did not show great enthusiasm for the American coup. America’s criminality is contagious.
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FRED REED—Mexico today has a large number of universities (the Technológico of Monterrey, a premier engineering school, has some thirty campuses in as many cities: Is that one university or thirty?) Mexico graduates well over 100,000 engineers a year, including 13,000 in software, and has a rapidly growing high-tech industry with centers in Guadalajara and Mexico City. Major American firms, to include IBM, Oracle, and Intel, come here to hire them. And of course the internet, airlines, computerized everything, and teenagers pecking at smartphones.