AP Mexico Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:03:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Two FP Articles on Mexican Democracy https://daniellazar.com/2023/03/11/two-fp-articles-on-mexican-democracy/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:03:15 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=9540 Read the one assigned to you and respond to these prompts: 1.       What is the author’s thesis?2.       Substantial list of data supporting the thesis.3.       3 most interesting lessons learned. 4.       What does this source suggest about the state of democracy in Mexico (a paragraph)?5.       1 question for the author.

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]]> The Autocrat Next Door https://daniellazar.com/2023/03/11/the-autocrat-next-door/ Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:33:28 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=9536 Mexico’s erratic and authoritarian president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is scheming to end the country’s quarter-century commitment to multiparty liberal democracy. He is subverting the institutions that have upheld Mexico’s democratic achievement—above all, the country’s admired and independent elections system.

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]]> Structures and Functions of the United Mexican States https://daniellazar.com/2021/09/03/lecture-thinking-about-political-culture/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 16:32:46 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=9248 The post Structures and Functions of the United Mexican States appeared first on Daniel Aaron Lazar.

]]> On Obrador's 2018 Victory https://daniellazar.com/2018/08/05/on-obradors-2018-victory/ Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:11:45 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5859 “The outcome represents a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the last quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of globalization that many Mexicans feel has not served them.” Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexico presidency in landslide with mandate to reshape nation. (Globalism is … Continue reading On Obrador's 2018 Victory →

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]]> Development in Mexico: Of cars and carts https://daniellazar.com/2017/03/08/development-in-mexico-of-cars-and-carts/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 05:39:11 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5659 Spatial divisions in Mexico’s modernisation are still obvious today…economic productivity in Nuevo León, a heavily industrialised state close to the American border, is at South Korean levels. In the south of Mexico it is close to that of Honduras. The country’s industrial clusters devoted to the manufacture of cars, planes, electric goods and electrical equipment—categories … Continue reading Development in Mexico: Of cars and carts →

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]]> Mexicans have 300 different ways of referring to corruption https://daniellazar.com/2016/11/02/mexicans-have-300-different-ways-of-referring-to-corruption/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:03:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5593 Language is shaped by a people’s environment. Inuits famously have more than 50 words for snow, while Hawaiians have 65 to describe fishnets. In Mexico, there are 300 terms to refer to corruption. They are compiled in a new book, the “Mexican Corruptionary,” a tongue-in-cheek effort to get Mexicans to own up to their corrupt … Continue reading Mexicans have 300 different ways of referring to corruption →

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]]> Are Mexico's Zapatista rebels still relevant? https://daniellazar.com/2016/08/10/are-mexicos-zapatista-rebels-still-relevant/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:20:50 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5546 Twenty years after the uprising, activists say Zapatistas have influenced radical movements around the world. “Today the rebellion remains a work in progress. Having established complete political and economic autonomy, the Zapatistas govern and police their own communities across five regions of Chiapas. Relations with the state remain strained, and Zapatistas complain of regular harassment … Continue reading Are Mexico's Zapatista rebels still relevant? →

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]]> Video: A Place Called Chiapas https://daniellazar.com/2016/08/10/video-a-place-called-chiapas/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 05:13:54 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5540 A Place Called Chiapas is a 1998 Canadian documentary film of first-hand accounts of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southwestern Mexican … Continue reading Video: A Place Called Chiapas →

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]]> Happiness and Development https://daniellazar.com/2014/11/02/5103/ Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:35:02 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5103 A survey of 43 countries published on October 30th by the Pew Research Centre of Washington, DC, shows that people in emerging markets are within a whisker of expressing the same level of satisfaction with their lot as people in rich countries. The Pew poll asks respondents to measure, on a scale from zero to … Continue reading Happiness and Development →

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]]> Teachers Make Big Bucks in Mexico https://daniellazar.com/2014/05/28/teachers-make-big-bucks-in-mexico/ Wed, 28 May 2014 04:19:05 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4948 Maybe I should move to Mexico? A new report by a Mexico-based think tank has revealed some real zingers, including 70 teachers who haul in more pesos than the president of the nation. One impoverished state, Hidalgo, was said to have more than 1,000 teachers listed as 100 or more years old. The Mexican Institute for … Continue reading Teachers Make Big Bucks in Mexico →

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