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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...
...stood waiting for what felt like hours in a large field between wooden buildings with bright murals depicting socialist utopias in Mexican villages. My hands shook as a man approached wearing a black balaclava that disguised his identity despite his brightly-colored traditional peasant garb. He led me into a barn that was only lit by the sun filtering between the cracks in the rough boards of the walls. My eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness to reveal two other men and a woman seated on a bench in the corner who were similarly dressed and disguised...
...EZLN has been relegated to the sidelines of Mexican politics today. Marcos issues statements regarding the Basque Separatists in Spain, while the people turn towards more conventional leaders who focus less on their needs. The timing of the EZLN gave it the unique opportunity to possess real power as a rebel group, and it still has a chance to overcome its terrorist past and become a legitimate political party. In order to do so, however, it will need to serve the people I visited not just in moments of glory, but in their everyday concerns...
...young actor in Pedro Almodóvar's new film also has a myriad of faces to wear--a transvestite chanteuse, the wreck of an abused child, a caring brother, a furtive lover capable of murder. But that's no great stretch for Gael García Bernal. The budding Mexican star has convinced audiences he can be a dog-loving street punk (Amores Perros), a priest tortured by love (El Crimen del Padre Amaro), a randy teenager on a spree (Y Tu Mamá También). In The Motorcycle Diaries, which just opened, he incarnates the young Ernesto Guevara, soon...
...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...