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President Clinton recently visited Mexico. While there, he met with PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) president Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI is the political party in power. It has been in power for over 60 years and has never lost a presidential election. Is the PRI the true expression of the democratic will of the people of Mexico, or a totalitarian dictatorship? In 1968 Mexican students protested the PRI government and army. Over 300 students were murdered. On January 1st 1994, a group of Mayan Indians calling themselves the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) rose up in arms to protest the same government and army. This paper will explore the history of the PRI, the 1968 student massacre, and the formation of the EZLN. By examining this part of Mexican history, this paper will show direct links between governmental corruption, the lack of democracy, the intolerance of social protest, and the necessity for the oppressed to move towards armed struggle.In 1924 Plutarco Calles was the president of Mexico. He was the founder and organizer of the P.N.R.(National Revolutionary Party), which later changed its name to the PRI. Calles was a Masonic anti-clerical president, who closed many churches and deported a number o
The cycle of corruption, unemployment, intolerance, and the party-state dictatorship continued into the 50’s and 60’s. The presidency of Miguel Aleman pushed for the privatization of public services. Aleman, along with his colleagues from the PRI, benefited from his actions since they receive “kickbacks” from private industries. Brandenburg states, “Aleman’s undisputed leadership of the Revolutionary Family [PRI] ended a year before he left the presidency. Forced savings, capital accumulation, and his new agricultural policy, plus inflation and conspicuous graphed, had alienated the masses”(106). At the end of Aleman’s term, he became richer by taking advantage of public treasuries. In 1940, Manuel Avila Camacho became PRI president of Mexico. Camacho stressed the importance of economic growth and industrial capitalism. As a result of this, the work force grew but left many unemployed. Pablo Gonzales Casanova explains, “One finds in Mexico the unresolved dualisms of a popular revolution of the masses which ended by consecrating a military dictatorship of the middle classes; a very rapid growth of the industrial sector which leaves the traditional peasant sector untouched and unabsorbed”(xi). f priest and nuns. Calles portrayed himself as a socialist, but it was a front. Vincent Padgett writes, “ … as the money poured in, all those at the to
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