Gateway to the Next Mexican Revolution?

A Year of Unprecedented Turmoil

After a tumultuous year in which the red and black flags of civil insurrection unfurled on the barricades and the rancor of "los de abajo" ("those from below") took fire, newly sworn-in president Felipe Calderon and his transnational backers are banking on fading the color scheme to a ubiquitous gray in 2007. Their success will be measured by the fight back of a popular resistance that has surged from the bottom in many parts of the country during 2006. Full Story »

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Marius Chitosca
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by Marius Chitosca - Oct. 1, 2008

Complex walkthrough of the Mexican crisis accumulated over the years and starting to burst in 2006: a president accused of stealing the elections, running the country with iron hand and working on his image with the help the two allied national televisions; drug cartels that never end, syndicalist protests all over the country, human rights violation by brutal police force intervention, political jailing, an ever decaying economy -- constrained by NAFTA regulations, a shrinking pressure valve of immigration, all of this turns Mexico into a violent social volcano threatening to totally explode in 2007, thus potentially opening the gate a new Mexican revolution.

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