Schlagwort: Mexico
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Tony Saunois: Mexican crisis, Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas
[Militant International Review, No 61, Summer 1995, p. 18-21] Sixty thousand Mexican troops, together with US and Argentinian ‘advisors’, are besieging the guerrillas of the Zapatista National Liberation Front (EZLN) in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Unable to hunt down and crush the guerrillas, they are wrecking the peasants’ villages, destroying their tools and poisoning…
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Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 26-28] As the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s receded, Latin America once again showed signs of economic growth – there was even talk of Latin America joining the ‚first world‘ of advanced countries. But the Mexican financial crash has revealed how brittle these claims were. Tony…
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Alan Woods: Latin America on the brink
[Militant International Review, No. 24, November 1983, p. 12-26] The ending of the exceptional period of upswing in the world economy from 1950 to 1975, and the beginning of a new period of organic capitalist crisis, has opened up an entirely different situation on a world scale, a fundamental feature of which is the phenomenon…