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Video Resources

  1. This 1997 Frontline documentary Murder, Money, and Mexico discusses the controversies around the family of president Carlos Salinas de Gortari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr4JwFTsRek (51:58)
  2. This 1998 movie A Place Called Chiapas details the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TffwElt_UU (1:32:23)
  3. This video presents a 1994 CBS interview with Subcomandante Marcos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA9zUPfJO4U (15:07)
  4. This 2014 video explores the wealth of Carlos Slim, Mexican magnate (and one of the world's richest people): http://www.cnbc.com/id/101573457#. (3:21)
  5. This 1996 video documents the daily struggles in the informal market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPZE9Td8RwQ (23:42)

Links

  1. This website contains declassified documents from the Mexican government related to violent efforts to crush opposition from the 1960s to the 1980s: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB209/index.htm
  2.  This website contains secret recordings of conversations between presidents Richard Nixon and Luis Echeverría: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB95/
  3.  This website provides an overview of Mexico's debt crisis and its aftermath with readable analysis and helpful graphs: https://economics.rabobank.com/publications/2013/september/the-mexican-1982-debt-crisis/
  4. This George Mason University website contains a presentation that puts Mexico's debt in a global perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ABGj683fs

Primary Documents from the Text

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