SPAN 44 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Carlos Salinas De Gortari, Theology, North American Free Trade Agreement
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A case study: the zapatista uprising in chiapas. Government of carlos salinas de gortari (1988-1994) Privatization of the banking system telecommunications, and abolition of the ejidos. Now they are in the hands of carlos forbes guy, he has a crazy amount of money of mexican telecommunications. The ejidos, system of collective land property recognized after the war bc of emiliano zapata. Parcel by parcel sold to big businesses. Concentration in a few hands, but they are not mexican they are transcultural businesses, this happened after the demolition of the ejidos. Impacted the areas where the mayan populations lived; chiapas. Nafta; free trade agreement that eliminated tariffs of commerce and trade. They believed it will worsen the lower people. Increased the gap between the lower and higher classes. Social inequality, the reforms reduced by carlos increased the gap between the lower and higher. Subcomandante marcos, the fourth world war talks about this.
