Mexico
Letter: Solidarity, not sectarianism
To the Compañeras/os in the North American Anti-Authoritarian Zapatista Solidarity Community:
Young Anarchists Damage a McDonald's in Mexico City's Zona Rosa: Chronicles of the Mexican "Scene"
by Gustavo Rodríguez
translated by Todd Prane with Elizabeth Bright
According to a report that appeared in La Jornada on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1994, signed by Ricardo Olayo, "About thirty 'anarchist' youths broke windows, computers and threw food and trash cans to the ground in the McDonalds located on Génova street in the "Zona Rosa" [a tourist and very upper-class area of Mexico City] as a protest against Proposition 187, which was passed yesterday (Nov. 8) in California....
Rebellion from the Roots: A Review
Review of John Ross, Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas, Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1995, 404 pp.
by Harry Cleaver
Cascading Currencies and National Liberation - the Situation in México
by Matt Miscreant
Mexico: Rumors of War
By Christopher Day
Talk of Peace... “If you want peace” the bumpersticker reads, “prepare for war.” The Mexican corollary to this bit of back-country wisdom seems to be “If you want war, make proposals for peace.” March was a month of peace proposals in Mexico with three major “peace initiatives” following in rapid succession. The first was from the newly-appointed Governor of Chiapas, Roberto Albores Guillen of the PRI (the Revolutionary Institutional Party that has ruled Mexico for 70 years). The second was from the right-wing PAN (National Action Party). And the third came from President Ernesto Zedillo, also of the PRI.
The Zapatistas: Live and On Tour
By Christopher Day and Jessica Parsons
First there was the waiting. The 1,111 Zapatista delegates to the Founding Congress of the FZLN (The Zapatista National Liberation Front) in Mexico City were supposed to arrive in San Cristobal de las Casas between two and five in the afternoon. A small crowd huddled under a tarp in the pouring rain to meet them in the cathedral square. Gradually the crowd grew. By eight o’clock the Zapatistas still had not arrived, but the rain had cleared and now about 2,000 people waited in the square. Music was playing from the stage; a few hot air balloons with “EZLN” painted on the side were released into the night sky, but still no Zapatistas.
