File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1996/96-12-19.214, message 12


Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 18:01:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Evil happenings in Mexico - attn TU/Civil rights activis


Here's an example of a more recent report from Chiapas.  Clearly the 
situation is serious, but it does worry me that it is the one post 
suggesting a "massacre" that has garnered all the attention.

In many ways, after all, what has been occuring in Chiapas are phenomena
reflecting *systemic* inequalities in Mexico, common to many other
countries, albeit that in Mexico Zapatista intervention among other events
have now pushed this particular political and economic system towards the
brink.  This is all much more worrying to me, and can't quite be effaced
by only the occasional liberal disquiet over a reported massacre.  Such 
abuses are terrible, but they aren't the origin of the problem.

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons
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