Anatomy of a Marriage

1. Anatomy of a Marriage Modes of Representation and Participation in Mexico Kathleen Bruhn’s “Seven Year Itch”

2. After Cuautemoc Cardenas 1988-1994 • Why Did the PRI (PartidoRevolucionario Institutional) Win in ’94? • With many “movements” and a nascent guerrilla force in Chiapas how did Partido de la RevolucionDemocratica (PRD) lose the race? • Dfn: “Popular Movements“ demand making organizations of the popular classes.

3. Why Movements Have Fragile Relations with Parties • Institutional context of Mexican Politics • Cooptation by neoliberals • The way parties are formed and maintained: Competition between movements and parties • PRD’s “new kid” status on top of existing organizations

4. The Massacre at Tlatelolko October 1968 • World-wide student protests in Europe, Asia, the US. In Mexico, sporadic clashes with police beginning in July. • At the Tlatelolko housing project, several thousand demonstrators, several thousand soldiers. • Signal flares from a helicopter, sharpshooters and the army opened fire. • About 300 dead. >1,200 wounded. Many more imprisoned, exiled.

5. The Massacre at Tlatelolko October 2,1968

8. c •                  The tragedy exposed the dark underside of thPRI, which had never suffered a                  direct challenge to its authority and had always ruled by co-opting critics rather                  than stifling them. Student massacre still hangs over Mexico "It has resonance to this day because Mexican police power continues to violate human rights," said Delal Baer, an expert on Mexican affairs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. "This is a traum a which has scarred many prominent Mexicans. The generation of Tlatelolco are in their late 40s and 50s and many of them are at the peak of their adult lives," she said. Historians say the decline of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), ousted from office in 2000, began at Tlatelolco when Mexicans discovered that a student movement calling for more democracy could be crushed so mercilessly. The tragedy exposed the dark underside of the PRI, which had never suffered a direct challenge to its authority and had always ruled by co-opting critics rather than stifling them.