Schlagwort: PRI

  • Phil Hearse: Mexico sunrise?

    [Socialism Today, No 21, September 1997, p. 22-24] Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRD suffered its worst electoral defeat in 68 years on 6 July when it lost its overall majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Not only that but the left-centre PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) replaced the right wing PAN (National Action…

  • 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…