An even more serious threat to the global corporate empire than Hugo Chavez
by Chris Herz
The US media is studiously boycotting coverage of the mass-protests against the outcome of the Mexican elections. Likewise the serious and on-going civil unrest in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca: The homeland of Emiliano Zapata, the great hero of the Mexican Revolution.
We have heard information that US naval and Coast Guard forces in the Gulf of Mexico have been augmented for the purpose of "protecting" PEMEX offshore drilling platforms.
The US Border Patrol has been reinforced in anticipation of serious trouble in Mexico and in anticipation of increased numbers of persons attempting to flee into US territories.
But this information is scantly reported; as usual anything important will be covered once in some newspaper, on page Z28, once ... and then never again mentioned. Certainly not in electronic media outside of the sites like this one ... this being the traditional way US media pretends to being impartial and complete in its work. This is a front in the global class war now underway that bears watching, if for no other reason than the obvious significance the US oligarchy are attaching to it.
* If we read US newspapers and watch US TV with the same spirit of critical assessment with which Soviet citizens watched their propaganda organs, as we should, we can learn as much from its silences as we can from its fulminations.
What is going on at this moment in Mexico is a very big deal, one equivalent entirely to the work of Hugo Chavez Frias in Venezuela since 1992 ... or of what went down in Cuba between 1954 and 1959.
These events in Mexico are of the gravest portent to the efforts of US and other multinational businesses like VOLKSWAGEN to expatriate industrial facilities to low-wage nations whilst repatriating profit back to the imperial motherlands. This may be an even more serious threat to the global corporate empire than the work of Hugo Chavez Frias, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... it is a deadly menace to some of the largest corporations in the world.
The crisis began with the efforts of the Ejercito Zapatista por la Liberation National (EZLN) to disassociate the working people of Mexico from the corrupted media/electoral process. And then was intensified when the liberal party of the Partido de la Revoluccion Democratica (PRD) had stolen from its presidential candidate for the second time the supposedly democratic election. This by machinations aided by US interests in the favor of the traditional ruling party, the PRI and its successor, the conservatives of the PAN. An unique, Mexican blend of old-style ballot-box stuffing and of sophisticated high-tech electronic manipulations similar to those in the USA herself in 2000 and 2004 has allowed the simulated triumph of corporatist forces in this and in the previous presidential elections.
Unlike the USA, Mexico has seriously committed democratic activists who do not fear to do their duty. And among these is the presidential candidate of the PRD, Lopez Obrador ... and their resistance, has thrown the nation into crisis.
As I write, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans are blockading various portions of the capital, including the Congress ... and the death-squads are again active. Especially in the state of Oaxaca where the popular forces seized a public TV station. This has now been destroyed, we hear, by government forces ... and several people have been killed in a series of atrocities led by undercover police.
A North American retired professor, resident in Oaxaca, George Saltzman of my own state of Maryland, USA, has been reporting to me on this struggle.
Venezuela's attempt to follow Cuba in breaking with the empire has thus acquired new aid from the very nation most touted as that which has best profited from the corporatist North American Free Trade Association ... an unexpected, but very welcome new partner.
Alas for Mexico ... so far from God ... so near to the United States.
The US media is studiously boycotting coverage of the mass-protests against the outcome of the Mexican elections. Likewise the serious and on-going civil unrest in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca: The homeland of Emiliano Zapata, the great hero of the Mexican Revolution.
We have heard information that US naval and Coast Guard forces in the Gulf of Mexico have been augmented for the purpose of "protecting" PEMEX offshore drilling platforms.
The US Border Patrol has been reinforced in anticipation of serious trouble in Mexico and in anticipation of increased numbers of persons attempting to flee into US territories.
But this information is scantly reported; as usual anything important will be covered once in some newspaper, on page Z28, once ... and then never again mentioned. Certainly not in electronic media outside of the sites like this one ... this being the traditional way US media pretends to being impartial and complete in its work. This is a front in the global class war now underway that bears watching, if for no other reason than the obvious significance the US oligarchy are attaching to it.
* If we read US newspapers and watch US TV with the same spirit of critical assessment with which Soviet citizens watched their propaganda organs, as we should, we can learn as much from its silences as we can from its fulminations.
What is going on at this moment in Mexico is a very big deal, one equivalent entirely to the work of Hugo Chavez Frias in Venezuela since 1992 ... or of what went down in Cuba between 1954 and 1959.
These events in Mexico are of the gravest portent to the efforts of US and other multinational businesses like VOLKSWAGEN to expatriate industrial facilities to low-wage nations whilst repatriating profit back to the imperial motherlands. This may be an even more serious threat to the global corporate empire than the work of Hugo Chavez Frias, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ... it is a deadly menace to some of the largest corporations in the world.
The crisis began with the efforts of the Ejercito Zapatista por la Liberation National (EZLN) to disassociate the working people of Mexico from the corrupted media/electoral process. And then was intensified when the liberal party of the Partido de la Revoluccion Democratica (PRD) had stolen from its presidential candidate for the second time the supposedly democratic election. This by machinations aided by US interests in the favor of the traditional ruling party, the PRI and its successor, the conservatives of the PAN. An unique, Mexican blend of old-style ballot-box stuffing and of sophisticated high-tech electronic manipulations similar to those in the USA herself in 2000 and 2004 has allowed the simulated triumph of corporatist forces in this and in the previous presidential elections.
Unlike the USA, Mexico has seriously committed democratic activists who do not fear to do their duty. And among these is the presidential candidate of the PRD, Lopez Obrador ... and their resistance, has thrown the nation into crisis.
As I write, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Mexicans are blockading various portions of the capital, including the Congress ... and the death-squads are again active. Especially in the state of Oaxaca where the popular forces seized a public TV station. This has now been destroyed, we hear, by government forces ... and several people have been killed in a series of atrocities led by undercover police.
A North American retired professor, resident in Oaxaca, George Saltzman of my own state of Maryland, USA, has been reporting to me on this struggle.
Venezuela's attempt to follow Cuba in breaking with the empire has thus acquired new aid from the very nation most touted as that which has best profited from the corporatist North American Free Trade Association ... an unexpected, but very welcome new partner.
Alas for Mexico ... so far from God ... so near to the United States.
posted by Alice at
Friday, August 25, 2006
1 Comments:
Trippy shit. Go Mexico.
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