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Mexico: An Uprising Against the Inevitable
Laura Carlsen - 4/20/2006
“The inevitable' has a name today: fragmented globalization…the end of history, the omnipresence and omnipotence of money, the substitution of politics for police, the present as the only possible future, rationalization of social inequality, justification of super-exploitation of human beings and natural resources, racism, intolerance, war.”
- Subcomandante Marcos.

Will Marcos cost Mexico’s Left the presidency
Thomas Muirhead - 1/25/2006
The Zapatista rebel Subcomandante Marcos has shed his violent past and made a move towards formal political influence. His campaign to gather supporters to a far-left agenda could, however, split the country’s left-leaning voters and hand the presidential election to the right.

México and Mercosur: A Trojan Horse?
Laura Carlsen - 1/12/2006
Mexico's absence was noted in the most recent meeting of Mercosur. Neither President Vicente Fox nor Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Derbez, invited to represent the second-largest economy in the region, attended the event in Montevideo, citing previous commitments. For many observers, the real reason they left the duty to the Mexican Ambassador to Uruguay was to avoid the obligation to congratulate Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez on its induction as a member of Mercosur. Mexico and Venezuela mutually withdrew their ambassadors in November due to a difficult ‘conflict of ideas' resulting from the Fouth Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata.

IMF and Guatemala: Do you see the Road?
Luis Figueroa - 12/25/2005
An old joke tells the story of the meeting of two Latin American presidents (but frankly they can be from almost any other continent). The meeting takes place at their countries' border and they begin a conversation. "What´s up?", asks the President of country A to his colleague of country B. - "Everything OK, man", answers President from country B. "How about commissions?", asks the first one. "Well enough. Do you see that road?", says President B. "Yes!", answers the president from county A. - "Well, you see", says President B, "20% in my bank account". "So you see that airport?" asks ag...

Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
Michael Flynn - 12/25/2005
President Bush’s “comprehensive strategy” on border security aimed at preventing “people from coming here in the first place,” announced last month, does nothing to address the growing phenomenon of global migration. What’s more, it leaves Mexico to clean up a mess it didn’t make.