DNA (Washington) August 5
Uprising in Mexico, Mexican President Murdered
by Daniel Andrews
As their hardships have multiplied in the ongoing economic
collapse, the people of Mexico have finally risen
up and
overthrown their government. Weekly riots in
Mexico City
grew to a climax this week as angry people from all
over the
country converged on the object of their anger.
There was a
riot right through the presidential residence and
the president
was thrown from a balcony.
With most of their army indisposed in Chiapas or protecting
the maquiladoras along the US border, the government
was
left virtually undefended. Many of the remaining
troops threw
down their guns or joined the protesters. Even
now, they are
forming a federation of people’s councils, forging
a system
based upon direct democracy to replace the corrupt
and
aristocratic government they have deposed. This
is the fruition
of a grassroots movement which has been growing in
this
country for over a decade. This movement actually
had its
roots back in the 1990’s in the early strikes in the
maquiladoras
and in the Zapatista rebellion.
After NAFTA was signed, Mexico became a playland for
the
rich, a place where they could cheaply build huge
mansions
overlooking the squalor of the Mexican people who
were
oppressed to increase their riches. The maquiladoras--border
town factories--were the agents of oppression and
exploitation.
Workers suffered intolerable conditions, long hours
and grueling
work for wages which were barely sufficient to prevent
they and
their families from starving to death. In the
1990’s, workers
began efforts to form unions. As the efforts
spread through the
maquiladoras, the movement turned into a war between
workers,
their employers, the Mexican government, and the government
backed unions. In recent years, strikes and
retaliations have kept
the area paralyzed. Yet the movement has spread
across the
entire nation as strikes have become the rule of order
everywhere.
This eventually led up to the massive national general
strike which
began two weeks ago.
The strike movement has grown hand in hand with a call
for agrarian
reform and self-government led by indigenous peoples.
This began
with the Zapatista uprising as an army was formed
to protect the
people of various villages while they sought to expropriate
the lands
around them. In the late 1990’s, the government
began to amass
troops in Chiapas, where the Zapatista rebellion was
headquartered.
In spite of the series of slaughters and retaliations
which followed,
the Zapatistas grew stronger and the rebellion spread
to other
regions. In various areas, villagers began to
take back the lands
around them and reorganize their villages.
Two years ago all of these various movements began
to federate,
and at that time it became obvious that the Mexican
government
would have to fight to maintain control of the country.
The US
increased military funding--supposedly under the guise
of fighting
the drug war. The number of US military advisers
in Mexico
increased as well. Yet there was little the
president of Mexico
could do against a movement which seemed to pop up
independently everywhere.
Now, while there are elements of the military still
fighting in Chiapas
and elsewhere, the government has fallen and the people
have
begun the great work of building a true democracy.
Already the
maquiladoras are being expropriated by the workers.
Everywhere
people are taking over their own destiny, and sprawling
mansions
are falling to the torch. Property of Mexican,
US and other
international corporations is falling back into the
hands of the
Mexican people. But, even as they are so busy,
many are
beginning to look to the north, watching for the US
response.
The people of Mexico offer solidarity for the struggling
workers and
citizens of the US, but they fear the response of
the US government.
While reports in the US have tended to play up the
rebellion as the
work of radical communist terrorists who have gained
control of the
crowds, this reporter believes that there is a strong
undercurrent of
sympathy in the United States on the part of the majority
of citizens
who have suffered under global capitalism.
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This report is entirely fictional. It is
part of a short story written as a series
of news reports, and is presented purely
for entertainment purposes.
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