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Chiapas response: Revolt

Chiapas response: Revolt. January 1, 1994 - First day of NAFTA Zapatista Liberation Army work land housing food health care education. Mexican State Solution. Militarization. Case-study: Tijuana. Tijuana: dynamic economy. Global reorganization of capital in late 2Oth Century

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Chiapas response: Revolt

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  1. Chiapas response: Revolt • January 1, 1994 - First day of NAFTA • Zapatista Liberation Army • work • land • housing • food • health care • education

  2. Mexican State Solution • Militarization

  3. Case-study: Tijuana

  4. Tijuana: dynamic economy • Global reorganization of capital in late 2Oth Century • Based on export of production to low-wage, • weak labor-organization areas.

  5. Divided Tijuana: Divided Medicine • Elite: businessmen and managers • Private medicine • Workers: • Social Security • U.S. citizens (San Diego residents & retirees in Baja C.) • Private medicine (including alternative medicine) • Medicare Mexico (new!) • Cross-border health insurance • Families of San Diego workers • The underclass: migrants, Indians, poor

  6. Tijuana: Alternative Medicine Clinics Kuhnau Center: specializes in Embryonic Shark Tissue/Live Cell Therapy. “For more information call the Tijuana office at 0115266-83-51-51 (the secretary speaks English).”

  7. The Militarization of the Border:A Public Health Problem • Operation Gatekeeper, initiated in 1994 • Attempt to seal the border: changing strategy • Low apprehension count = success • border fence • high-tech instruments

  8. Increase of deaths since Operation Gatekeeper • Border Crossing Deaths by Geographic Sector

  9. Death at the border

  10. Death at the border • AIDS Deaths and Border Crossing Deaths

  11. Conclusion • Democracy • Global Equity

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