Democracy in Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political ReformSouth End Press, 1995 - 274 páginas Placing this book in the context of NAFTA and Mexican movements for social change, journalist and historian Dan La Botz unveils the forces behind Marcos and the Zapatista Rebellion of January 1994 and re-examines the circumstances surrounding the assasination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Contains a detailed analysis of how Ernesto Zedillo and the PRI won the August 21, 1994 elections and includes an examination of widespread electoral fraud. La Botz provides a first-hand account of the founding of National Democratic Converntion (CND), the new force for democracy and social justice in Mexico led by Rosario Ibarra. Ibarra is Mexico's leading human rights activist and first woman presidential candidate. |
Contenido
THE ZAPATISTA | 21 |
FROM MEXICAN REVOLUTION | 43 |
THE RISE | 65 |
THE SON | 83 |
CARLOS SALINAS AND THE TECHNOCRATIC | 101 |
WORKERS PLOT REBELLION ON | 139 |
BETWEEN | 157 |
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