(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #231 - Mexico: Resisting the PRI is to resist the worst (fr)

With the return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since December 2012, we had 
written that we were expecting the worst[1]. We are not disappointed. ---- Just came to 
power, Enrique Pe?a Nieto (EPN) signed with the PAN (National Action Party, Catholic 
right) and the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution, left far more radical) the Pact 
Mexico, sealing the unit of the Mexican political class to deepen neoliberal bleeding in 
the country. With some paternalistic social programs to get the pill, EPN has undertaken 
to reform the constitution to be able to privatize everything goes. It began with 
education, and is now tackling energy. National and transnational capitalism benefits and 
looting the country with mining or tourism projects wind, hydraulic imposed by force. 
Social and indigenous resistance is imprisoned, murdered or forced into exile, while 
organized crime runs fine days. This is the beauty of the corrupt political and judicial 
system built by the PRI during his 70 years in power.

Self-organization as resistance

Some local struggles come to oppose this movement, the more massive are those of the 
Zapatistas and community fonts Guerrero. In this ravaged by organized crime state, many 
indigenous communities have organized since 1995 to put out the police and army, largely 
corrupt and inefficient, and develop their own police and justice, based on the 
rehabilitation and repair. In these regions, affecting nearly 100,000 people, crime and 
organized crime have collapsed through these autonomous community practices.

A global social movement struggling to emerge

But the global struggles are harder to articulate. Mobilization against education reform, 
for example, took months to train and out of corporatism monstrous education union whose 
leader-es are also widely corrupt. Despite attempts to create a popular movement bringing 
together teachers, social organizations and parents in some states (Oaxaca, Guerrero), the 
movement has not massification and laws were passed. The energy reform recently announced 
in a country committed to its oil, however, could cause a massive mobilization. And why 
not represent the straw that broke the camel?

Jocelyn (AL Montreuil).

[ 1 ] See " Mexico: The torturers return to power "in AL No. 225, February 2013