{"id":22442,"date":"2017-01-11T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:26:16","slug":"protests-in-mexico-push-country-to-brink-of-revolution-and-nobodys-talking-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22442","title":{"rendered":"Protests in Mexico Push Country to Brink of Revolution and Nobody\u2019s Talking About It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protests in Mexico Push Country to Brink of Revolution and Nobody\u2019s Talking About It<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0San Diego, CA<\/em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/em>Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing\u00a0neoliberal reforms<\/a>\u00a0to the country\u2019s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation.<\/p>\n

The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on the situation in Mexico, even as the unfolding civil unrest has closed the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, California,\u00a0several times<\/a>\u00a0in the past week. Ongoing \u201cgasolinazo<\/a>\u201d protests in Mexico over a 20 percent rise is gas prices have led to over 400 arrests, 250 looted stores, and six deaths. Roads are being blockaded, borders closed, and government buildings\u00a0are being sacked. Protests have remained relatively peaceful overall, except for several isolated violent acts, which activists have\u00a0blamed<\/a>\u00a0on government infiltrators.<\/p>\n

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The few mainstream news reports that have covered the situation blame rising gas prices but fail to examine several other factors that are pushing Mexico to the brink of revolution.<\/p>\n

\u2018Narco-state\u2019 corruption<\/strong><\/div>\n

The narco-state, or as Mexican activists say, \u201cel<\/i>\u00a0narco-gobierno<\/i>,\u201d is a term used to describe the open corruption between the Mexican government and drug cartels. The narco-state has\u00a0been in the headlines lately<\/a>\u00a0over the kidnapping and presumed murder of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Guerrero, in 2014. This has been a source of continuous anti-government protests ever since.<\/p>\n

Though the kidnappings remain officially unsolved, members of the Guerrero Unidos drug cartel have\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0to colluding with local police forces to silence the student activists. Twenty police officers have been arrested in association with the kidnapping. Former Iguala police chief Felipe Flores has been arrested and\u00a0\u201caccused of offenses including organized crime and kidnapping the students,\u201d<\/i>\u00a0the\u00a0AP\u00a0<\/i>reports<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Protests in Mexico Push Country to Brink of Revolution and Nobody\u2019s Talking About It (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0San Diego, CA\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing\u00a0neoliberal reforms\u00a0to the country\u2019s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation. The U.S. media has remained mostly mute on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8803,517,6996,13456,657,685,1920],"class_list":["post-22442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antimedia","tag-mexico","tag-neoliberalism","tag-nick-bernabe","tag-protests","tag-revolution","tag-us-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}