John Ackerman: Between NAFTA and the Zapatistas After 20 Years in Mexico John Ackerman - La Jornada
go to original January 24, 2014

Many Other Worlds Are Possible: 20 Years After NAFTA (CreativeTime Reports)

Twenty years ago, on January 1994, both extremes of modern Mexico celebrated their corresponding historic victories. The oligarchy toasted happily that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect, which would guarantee their investments and would open new opportunities for international capital to pillage national riches and over-exploit work.

At the same time, Mexican society celebrated the rebirth of democratic hope with the indigenous uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas.

Today the oligarchy is richer and the Zapatista communities are taking steady steps towards the consolidation of their autonomy, but the rest of Mexican society has fallen into a bottomless pit of oblivion, poverty and hopelessness.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

Translated by Ruby Izar-Shea

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