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Thousands Protest Energy Reform In Mexico

September 1, 2013 lalag, www.allvoices.com , ,
According to police, the demonstration began with around 2000 participants, later joined by many other people. Their protest was against the opening of the energy sector. Among other things, the state oil company Pemex will in future may make joint business with private companies. "In defense of oil and electricity we do not deviate one step back," Cardenas said at the closing rally. His father Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized as president in 1938, the Mexican oil industry. In recent days there had been numerous demonstrations against the reform plans of the government again in Mexico. In the city center since about two weeks camped thousands of teachers who are protesting against the recent education reform.

Zapatistas Celebrate 10 Years of Autonomy with ‘Escuelita’

August 7, 2013 Leonidas Oikonomakis, www.roarmag.org ,
It was 10 years ago, on January 1, 2003, when — having exhausted the road of dialogue with the government as well the one of a “big R” Revolution that would overthrow the Mexican state — the Zapatistas of Chiapas decided to “abandon the politics of demands, and with it, all contact with the state.” Instead, they chose to concentrate on building their own autonomous, horizontal forms of self-government within their own territories and with their own means. In other words, to ignore the state as an institution and “act as if they had already won”, comrade ‘Bruce Lee’ of the CCRI in San Cristobal declared during the commemoration of the 1994 uprising that “we don’t have to ask the government’s permission to be autonomous.”
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