HILA 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Neoliberalism, Maquiladora, Debt Crisis
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Ezln (the zapatista army of national liberation) Neoliberalism review: debt crisis caused by collapse of oil market, world bank, imf, u. s. impose neoliberalist reforms without democratic process, free market activity fully endorsed, rollback of the public sector. The market is to be left unattended, it will become strong by itself and will solve social problems. Leave growth and development to the private sector: withdraw support for working class (repress unions, etc. Contesting neoliberalism: first wave of this resistance to the pri and the new neoliberal order happens in september. City did not have much of a budget to rebuild quickly. Thousands of people need new homes, government delays. Hundred thousand people march through the streets demanding housing relief, public services (water, electricity, etc. ), government accountability for faulty constructions: 1988 elections. Some politicians within the pri are against the reforms. Cuahtemoc c rdenas, son of l zaro c rdenas, abandons the pri and runs for the presidency.
