Man at the crossroads, looking with hope and high vision to a new and better future

(cont.) In Latin American new leaders are proposing alternatives to America's capitalist system. In Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos, is calling for an end to globalism. His group, the Zapatista revolutionary army who's name comes from the Mexican revolution of 1912, that Rivera once supported, are active in Mexico's poorest state Chiapas. They demand that the indigenous peoples of Chiapas be respected and their culture and tradition be fairly treated in a land governed by the Mexican and foreign companies. This is reminiscent of the 1930s when Nelson Rockefeller began to foster economic development in Mexico, and the indigenous peoples lands were being exploited. Later, another Rockefeller suggested that Mexico join NAFTA (1994), a factor that eventually led many Indians to be forced off their traditional lands, face starvation, and migrate north to seek work in the United States. This country on the other hand is planning to build a wall on the border.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2007

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• Wood, Benjamin Max

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Krzysztof Wodiczko.

• Architecture.

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