One Triangle,Two Campaigns

Abstract

Dispossession, contempt, and exploitation are the triangle upon which the domination of labor by capital has always been based in Mexico. During the twentieth century, peasant armies fought a successful revolution against two of the triangle’s legs, forcing the powerful, through the Constitution of 1917, to return them land and show them respect. Under the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1994), however, there was a counterreform, dismantling the agrarian reform and other social rights achieved by the Mexico people during the revolution and after. The Partido de la Revolución Democrática emerged during Salinas’s term to fight this assault. Today, however, it has become a vehicle for the political ambitions of many of the same politicians who surrounded Salinas. Under these circumstances, the Other Campaign proposed by the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional is the only honest response to the presidential campaign of 2006.