The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed
John W. Warnock
A harsh program was
imposed on Mexicans over the past thirteen years creating a
Mexico characterized by the highest unemployment in its
history, a dramatic increase in poverty, and gross
inequalities in income and wealth, all the while making
illicit drugs an important industry. This book examines these
changes and shows how the Mexican people have fought against
them in their efforts to create an alternative, more humane
society.
...these changes are not something that the
average tourist sipping a margarita in Puerto Vallarta or
Cancun will notice.
Finding out what is really happening in a
country requires in-depth research and that is just what
Warnock has provided. The book ends with a superb collection
of photos.
Briarpatch
About the Author
John W. Warnock received his Ph.D from
the American University, Washington, D.C., School of
International Service. After working for the U.S. State
Department, he taught political economy, most recently at the
University of Regina. He is assistant editor of Briarpatch
Magazine and a long time political activist. Books include The
Politics of Hunger and Free Trade and the New Right
Agenda.
321 pages, photographs, index
Photographs by Elaine Briére
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OTHER MEXICO TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments
vi Introduction: The Neoliberal Revolution 1 1. The Political
Culture: Domination and Rebellion 11 2. The Economic Challenge 36
3. Maquila Mexico 56 4 Corporate Power 76 5. Controlling Dissent
91 6. The Struggle for Labour Rights 111 7. Demonstration
Elections 129 8. The Meaning of NAFTA 148 9. The Impact of
Neoliberalism 168 10. Agriculture and Rural Poverty 190 11.
Trading the Environment 210 12. Promoting the Drug Industry 230
13. The Bubble Bursts 253 14. Alternatives to Neoliberalism 278
Photos by Elaine BriŠre 302 Index 317 @TITLE = MEXICO AND
NAFTA @TITLE2 = The Neo Liberal Experiment THE OTHER MEXICO: The
North Amrican Triangle Completed (DRs suggested title: Linda:
this title doesn't connote the negativity of this "complete
triangle" F) @AUTHOR = John W. Warnock Table of Contents:
Corporate Power in Mexico; Controlling Dissent; Struggling for
Labour Rights; The Impact of Neo-Liberalism; Trade &
Environment; The Drug Industry; 1994: the Bubble Bursts; Maquila
Mexico. -the Zapatista rebellion -"Family" controlled
economy & government -Mexican economic & political
history to 1995: a comprehensive treatment -Fraudulent elections;
torture under Salinas; worker repression; poverty &
patriarchy, environment -Alternatives for Mexico: The Citizens'
Movement for Democracy Globalization was a disaster imposed on
Mexicans over the past thirteen years, creating a Mexico
characterized by the highest unemployment in history, a dramatic
increase in poverty, gross inequalities in income and wealth,
while making illicit drugs the most important single industry.
Carlos Salinas was praised by politicians, bankers and foreign
investors for bringing a right-wing revolution to Mexico. The
Mexican president changed the constitution, and overthrew a
historic tradition which called for the development of a national
economy, independent of foreign ownership and control. Mexico and
NAFTA describes how over a twelve year period, two presidents
brought the neoliberal revolution to Mexico the free market,
foreign investment, privatization of state enterprises,
deregulation, cuts in social spending, and free trade with the
United States and Canada. The key was the one-party state and its
repressive institutions. But Mexicans have a long history of
resistance to domination and exploitation. John W. Warnock
describes how they fought back through this period. As Carlos
Salinas went into exile in the United States in early 1995, they
stepped up their efforts to create an alternative, more humane
society. John W. Warnock is assistant editor of Briarpatch
Magazine and a long time political activist. He has thought
political economy at four Canadian universities, most recently at
the University of Regina. His books include The Politics of
Hunger (1987) and Free Trade and the New Right Agenda (1988).
Possible quotes: "The goal of the neoliberal project in
Mexico and elsewhere is to try to make it impossible for future
governments to undertake a socialist road to development"
"The special relationship between big business interests and
the political leadership of the PRI is completely open. There has
been no attempt to hide it." "Owners of capital have
the right to invest their capital anywhere they want to without
government controls. The International Monetary Fund always
includes this right of property in the structural adjustment
programmes that they impose on Third World countries. They have
insisted on this in the Mexican case." @PAGE = xxx pages
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