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  1. After Oaxaca's Popular Rebellion
    Against The Current vol. 149

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    “Think about it,” a popular bumper sticker read, “6 more years would be 86.” On July 4, 2010, the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held statewide elections. Despite open vote-buying and other fraud perpetrated by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), it was not enough to ensure victory on this occasion, thereby ending 81 years of uninterrupted PRI rule in Oaxaca.
  2. Age of Extremes 
    The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 1997
    A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
  3. Anarchism
    A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas

    Resource Type: Book
  4. Another World is Possible 
    Globalization and Anti-capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
    A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
  5. Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
  6. Autonomy vs. the Mexican Party-State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    The development of autonomous local governments in Mexico.
  7. The Battle for Democracy in Mexico
    Against The Current vol. 117

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The Mexican people won a battle for democracy this past spring when massive demonstrations — the largest in Mexico’s tumultuous history — prevented President Vicente Fox from making Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador ineligible to run for president in 2006. The defeat of Fox on this issue was a victory for the Mayor, but above all for the Mexican people, who defended their right to vote for a candidate of their choice in the coming national elections.
  8. The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
  9. Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
  10. The Broken Spears
    The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1962
    Translated selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
  11. Canadian Mining Corporation Receives Permits in Mexican Indigenous Territory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian mining companies have found a way to expand their operations in Mexico. Recently the Mexican government awarded 22 permits to British Columbia-based First Majestic Silver to mine for silver in the western region of the country.
  12. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
    Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1969
    The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
  13. Central America Raises Its Voice in Defence of Its Migrants
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Spiralling violence against Central American migrants in Mexico has prompted legal reforms, diplomatic actions, and the creation of new mechanisms to protect citizens in this region.
  14. Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
  15. Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
    Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
  16. Chiapas Murder Draws Criticism of Canadian Mining in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The recent murder of Chiapan anti-mining organizer Mariano Abarca Roblero has drawn sharp criticism of Canadian mining in Mexico.
  17. Chomsky in Mexico
    La Jornada at 25

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    September has been a big month for La Jornada. To celebrate its 25th birthday, the National Lottery offered a commemorative ticket as did the Mexico City Metro subway system, rare mainstream honors for a lefty rag, and notorious U.S. rabble rouser Noam Chomsky came to town to help cut the cake - along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez (a founding investor) and the much-lauded Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano. The Jornada was founded in 1984 by itinerant journalists who had bounced from one short-lived left periodical to the next.
  18. Citizens Protest Lack of Consultation about Canadian Mine in San Jose del Progresso
    Popular Forces Occupy City Hall and Threaten to Incinerate Hostages

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Inhabitants of San José del Progresso, in the district of Ocotlán, affiliated with the Assembly of People United for the Valley of Ocotlán in Defense of Nature and Popular Autonomy, and opposed to the operation of the Canadian owned mine La Trinidad, escalated their battle with the assistance of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca, the APPO.
  19. Collective Reinventions
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on contemporary social movements in Mexico.
  20. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  22. Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
  23. Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
  24. CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2017
    A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
  25. The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
  26. Draining Canada Dry
    The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
  27. Drought
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
  28. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
  29. Dual Power or Populist Theater? Mexico's Two Governments
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés Manuel López Obrador to be the “legitimate president of Mexico.”He is now creating an alternative government, and says he will call a constituent assembly that will write a new constitution. What is happening here? Is this a radical fight for reforms? A potentially revolutionary movement? Or a spectacular piece of populist theater?
  30. 1810, 1910, 2010 and Mexican Labor
    Against The Current vol. 149

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the midst of a deep depression, an ongoing crisis of legitimacy and a brutal internal war amongst the different fractions of the drug cartel/state complex, Mexico is celebrating its two great revolutions, the Revolution of Independence (1810) and the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920).
  31. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  32. Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
  33. Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
  34. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
  35. Fighting for Union Autonomy: Mexican Miners On Strike
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On April 20 eight hundred state and federal police launched an assault on 500 striking workers who had been occupying a steel mill in Lázaro Cárdenas. Two were killed, five seriously injured and 40 wounded. A video released to the press shows Michoacán police taking aim at the strikers.
  36. Filmmaker "Gringoyo" Putting the Fun Back Into Revolution
    Harnessing Humour to Build Video Viewership and Social Movements

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    These satirical videos not only talk about movements, they are filmed in conflict zones in moments of political tension. Gringoyo moves in a very real world with the freedom of a cartoon.
  37. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
  38. 1491 
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
  39. From PRI to Foxismo
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Mexico on July 2 experienced an alternation of parties in power at the national level. But the more fundamental shift away from the one-party state had begun already with the Salinas administration (1988-1994), when he tried to replace the ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) with his own political and patronage apparatus, "Solidarity."
  40. FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
  41. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
  42. The Great Strike at UNAM
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The Great Strike of the Mexican National Autonomous University (UNAM), which for more than nine months was occupied by students organized in the Strike General Committee (CGH), started on April 20, 1999 and lasted until February 6, 2000. On that date 2500 federal police, following orders given by President Zedillo, evicted hundreds of students from the campus and arrested them.
  43. Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
  44. How Not to Get Eaten When the Dinosaurs Escape from their Cages
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The risks of moving too quickly to occupy TV stations, and “Suggestions for Radicals” who are in for the long haul.
  45. How Ultraleftism Divided UNAM Strike
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    MEXICO CITY -- Commandeered buses flying red and black flags and Che Guevara portraits sped through the city on October 2, ferrying students to a demonstration commemorating the 1968 student massacre at the Plaza of the Three Cultures. Led by veterans of the 1968 movement, 60,000 students and their supporters slogged the fifteen kilometers from the university campus up Insurgentes and Reforma, the world's longest urban avenues, to a torchlight ceremony in the plaza. Just five weeks before, on August 28, 30,000 students had marched in support of the electricity workers' struggle against privatization.
  46. The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
  47. In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
  48. Invitation to form Operative Groups YoSoy#132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    #YoSoy132 is against Enrique Peña Nieto, seeks the democratization of the mass media, and behaves as a peaceful movement.
  49. "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
  50. Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
  51. Latin America The Liberation of Latin America
    New Internationalist May 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look at the issues which have surrounded Latin America and what is changing.
  52. Legalize It!
    Why Decriminalization of Drugs Won't Get the 10,000 Ton Monkey Off of Mexico's Back

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Decriminalization is turning into a bonanza for Mexico City cops who have taken to carrying scales to weigh confiscated drugs and shaking down those "criminals" who exceed the decreed limits. Shaking down small-time users and dealers is nothing new in this the most corrupt, crime-ridden, and conflictive city in the western hemisphere. Indeed, crooked cops have been planting drugs on unwary citizens as long as cops have patrolled these mean streets.
  53. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  54. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  55. Marcos, Subcomandante
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
  56. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
    Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864

    Resource Type: Book
    Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
  57. A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
  58. The Masked Avenger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
    Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
  59. Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
  60. Mexican Environment Laws
    Resource Type: Article
    Mexico's lax environmental laws.
  61. The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
  62. Mexican War of Independence
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  63. Mexican Women -- Then and Now
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Araceli's gnarled hands knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she has lived in her whole life, half-way between Mexico City and Toluca, the capital of the State of Mexico.
  64. Mexico 2010: The Spreading Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    On July 4, in an atmosphere of widespread insecurity, unabated violence, and an uncertain allocation of authority and impunity,* Mexico held local elections in 15 of its 32 states.
  65. Mexico at War
    Against The Current vol. 137

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Mexico is at war. The drug war has become all the news this fall: Real war. Bloody war. With bombings, massacres and body counts.
  66. Mexico in Labor's Crucible
    Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
  67. Mexico in the Grip of Corruption
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Mexico's left of center Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) has been shaken by a scandal that could well reshape the nation's political life.
  68. Mexico: Insurrection and Disintegration
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    While Mexico boils at the bottom, it is also cracking up at the top.
  69. Mexico's Crisis in Context
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In this article I offer an historical context for understanding Mexico’s current economic, political, and human crisis triggered by 28 years of neoliberal economic policies. Neoliberal governments have privatized most sectors of the economy and reduced the Mexican state’s role to one of being a repressive apparatus. NAFTA and related neoliberal policies have left the economy without a dynamic internal market for local products and with a socio-economic inequality that is one of the most extreme in the world.
  70. Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
  71. Mexico's PATCO Moment?
    Against The Current vol. 143

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), made up of approximately 43,000 active and 22,000 retired workers in Mexico City and surrounding states, is fighting for its life. The union’s struggle has rallied allies in the labor movement and on the left in Mexico and solidarity from throughout the country and around the world, but if it is to survive the union and its supporters have to take stronger actions than they have so far, and time is not on their side.
  72. Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
  73. Mitziton: A community in Chiapas resisting the government road
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  74. The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
    The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
  75. The Murdered Women of Juarez
    Trails of Impunity

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The murder of young women, often raped and tortured has brought international infamy to Cuidad Juarez.
  76. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
  77. Narcoland
    The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
  78. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
  79. The Next Mexican Revolution
    Don't Look Now, But It's Already Started

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If this is to be the year of the next Mexican revolution, the time to move is now.
  80. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
  81. The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
    Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
  82. Oaxaca: Autonomy Under Seige
    Against The Current vol. 148

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    On April 27, 2010, the Mexican state of Oaxaca again garnered international attention as a humanitarian aid and solidarity caravan comprised of national and international activists heading to the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala was ambushed by state-backed paramilitaries, resulting in the deaths of two activists, leaving several wounded, and others disappeared for days.
  83. Oaxaca protests 2006
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
  84. #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
  85. Open Veins of Latin America 
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
  86. Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
  87. Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
  88. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  89. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  90. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  91. Pentagon Fingered as a Source of Narco-Firepower in Mexico
    The Big Clubs in Mexico's Drug War Aren't Slipping Through the Gun-Show Loophole

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars.
  92. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  93. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  94. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
  95. Resistance on the Mexican 'Riviera': The Zapatistas Visit Manzanillo, Colima
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
  96. Revolution of the Snails
    Encounters with the Zapatistas

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Give the Zapatistas time -- the slow, unfolding time of the spiral and the journey of the snail -- to keep making their world, the one that illuminates what else our lives and societies could be. Our revolution must be as different as our temperate-zone, post-industrial society is to their subtropical agrarianism, but also guided by the slow forces of dignity, imagination, and hope, as well as the playfulness they display in their imagery and language.
  97. The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
  98. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
  99. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  100. The Slave Trade
    The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
  101. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  102. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  103. State-Sponsored Violence Against Women
    Against The Current vol. 121

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The words of Latin American women continue to have no value to those who legislate, govern and administer justice. The permissiveness and omissions of state laws, institutions and functionaries in response to the violation of women’s rights are part of gender violence. The advances have been minimal and the need to dismantle this theater of illusions is urgent.
  104. Stolen Continents
    The "New World" Through Indian Eyes

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
  105. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  106. Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
    Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
  107. Temping Down Labor Rights: The Manpowerization of Mexico
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The continuing erosion of labour rights and labour standards in Mexico.
  108. Tlatelolco massacre
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968 in Mexico City.
  109. Tracking the News that Wasn't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
  110. TSA Drug-Running Scandal Betrays Drug War’s Pretense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The cost of bribing US border and airport security personnel is chump change in the narco-trafficking business.
  111. U.S. Socialists and the Mexican Revolution
    Against The Current vol. 149

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Eugene Victor Debs was America’s most impressive Socialist figure: founder of the American Railway Union and of the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the Socialist Party and its repeated candidate for president. He was jailed for his role in the Pullman strike in 1894 and for his opposition to World War I in 1918, and he strongly defended the Russian Soviet Revolution. If any person would stand for revolutionary socialism in the United States, surely it would be Debs.
  112. US Teaching "Counterinsurgency" Courses To Mexican Military in Drug War
    State Department Report Details Special Forces "Mobile Training Teams" South of the Border

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating "narco-terrorism" and "counterinsurgency" conflicts.
  113. The War Over Mangoes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
  114. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
  115. What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush's push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.
  116. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  117. Zapata, Emiliano
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
  118. A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
  119. Zapatista women explain things
    A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
  120. Zapatistas
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.

Experts on Mexique in the Sources Directory

  1. Association of Caribbean States
  2. Latin American Economic System
  3. Latin American Parliament
  4. Organization of American States
  5. Partners in Population and Development
  6. United Nations
  7. World Digital Library

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