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...work will be at the orphanage, she will also visit remote Andes villages to research the disparity in health care between urban and rural settings. Lee, an African American studies concentrator, said she intends to study the formation of popular assemblies and movements primarily in the Oaxaca and Chiapas regions of Mexico. The Oaxaca region has one of the highest indigenous populations in the country but also one of the poorest populations, according to Lee. “I’m working class and African American,” she said. “I feel like the struggles...
...Mexico's Calderon, a Harvard-educated technocrat, will have to bend his own free-market ideology to keep a bitterly divided Mexico from erupting after he takes office. Special federal police forces have already been called in to quell deadly riots in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez...
...border, and there is no end in sight. The bitterly contested July elections--narrowly won (by a margin of 0.6%) by Felipe Caldern against the populist Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador--were largely fought over economic policies, as are, at least in part, the recent battles in Oaxaca. The campaign exposed a yawning chasm between those benefiting from the status quo and those falling further behind: almost 48% of Mexicans continue to live in poverty. The election was also a referendum on NAFTA, which has strengthened Caldern's political base in the north. But in the south...
...Peabody Museum celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico in Boston. The consul...
...dead preoccupy Mexico. The media have been rife with editorials complaining that the Fox government did not respond to the protests in Oaxaca until an American was killed. More than a dozen Mexicans had died in earlier incidents amid the protests; a 15-year-old boy was killed in another clash with the federal police on Monday. But on the streets of Oaxaca, all the dead share the same nationality, even the dead American. A 76-year-old Indian woman approaches one of Will's altars and says, "This is not about politics. Today we honor death. This poor young...