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1
Your conclusion is sound, but the work up to there is a bit flaky.

I seriously doubt you'll see another Mexican revolution.
2
I'll show my work in a couple of weeks.
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Unfortunately lynchings and citizens' security organizations are usually seen in the Mexico/Central America context more as a symptom of political marginalization, all-pervasive violence, and failure of the state justice system than a form of community autonomy or empowerment. A local academic at the UW has a really good book about the phenomenon in Guatemala called "Popular Injustice." Thanks for the coverage of Latin American political and economic issues.
4
Far fucking out. Never underestimate angry men with machetes.
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Way to take a bold stance at the end there.
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You know, the corrupt strongmen currently running Mexico need to take a look at the history of Coffeyville Kansas, among others. There comes a time when the people have simply had enough and they take matters into their own hands. There are always more of them than there are of the bullyboys - if they stand together, they can nearly always win.

Mexico is overdue for the peasant revolt against corruption and violent crime.
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Actually, this is the end of the second Mexican Revolution.

The first revolution was the Mexico-born Spanish gentry who wanted more autonomy and power from Spain. They got Los Indios to help them, promising to improve their quality of life in return. That's how New Spain became Mexico.

The second revolution was the overthrow of dictator Diaz That's how Mexico became a democracy. Unfortunately, the strain of the second revolution caused a disconnection between Federal law enforcement based out of Mexico City in the south, and the northern Mexico states. This disconnect began about fifty years of anarchy in the northern states - not the romantic kind of anarchy where the people form affinity groups and live without hierarchy - but the brutal kind of anarchy where armed gangs offer both protection and intimidation for farmers and merchants. This was the birth of the Mexican mafias. Today's drug cartels are their progeny.

The Mexican Federal Government is now tasked with ending the remnants of the second Revolutionary War and breaking the drug cartels (and ensuring self-determination for the indigenous people of Mexico, and asserting their national autonomy - including autonomy from the will of the USA).

May the Virgin of Guadalupe help us all!

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