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Sparked by uprisings and protests around the world in the late 1960s, movements throughout Mexico began calling on the government to fulfill the commitments of the Mexican Revolution by reducing poverty and inequality and achieving greater level of democracy. These movements, however, were initially ineffective because the government simply repressed them harshly as soon as they occurred. The EZLN represented the culmination of a twenty-year tradition of grassroots organizing to solve the problems of underdevelopment and poverty that plagued Chiapas. The Catholic Church, the indigenous movements in the area and the socialist theorists from Mexico City joined forces...

Author: By Ayla Matanock, | Title: An Untaken Opportunity | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...trip she bonds with another woman, Helena, who seems as troubled as she. But as the trip progresses, Helena becomes increasingly manic and psychotic, forcing Sarah and the tour guides to figure out how to manage Helena back to the States before she gets arrested and thrown into a Mexican mental hospital. During this ordeal, Sarah discovers a part of herself that she didn't know was there. A dramatic, moving and unusual sort of travel tale, it leaves out the details of physical places and instead concentrates on two character's very different movement from one kind of self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Shangri-La | 10/2/2004 | See Source »

...GAEL GARCIA BERNAL IN THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES AND BAD EDUCATION This hunky, soulful Mexican could be his own toughest competitor. We'd pick his virtuoso turn in Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education over his more conventional role as the young Che Guevara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toronto: The Early Line for Oscar | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...Brazil, some misguided people vow that it increases sexual prowess; others are under the delusion that it makes a man impotent ... Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx ... The late William Allen White once described Coke as the "sublimated essence of all America stands for." To find something as thoroughly native American hawked in half a hundred languages on all the world's crossroads from Arequipa to Zwolle is still strangely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: 54 YEARS AGO IN TIME | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...major display areas are divided into three themes. "Our Universes" is about different forms of tribal knowledge, cosmologies and creation myths. "Our Peoples" deals with events that Native Americans see as crucial to their histories, like the establishment of the U.S.-Mexican border that abruptly divided Southwest desert tribes. "Our Lives" offers scenes and artwork from contemporary life, in which running shoes have replaced moccasins, in a world where some Indians live on reservations, some live in rainforests and quite a few live in Chicago. In each of the three sections, there are smaller display areas. Each one is devoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place To Bring The Tribe | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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