Chapter 15
Video Resources
- This 2010 BBC documentary discusses the drug war in Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VG66MjGG6E (59:13)
- In this video, students who formed part of the 2012 movement #YoSoy132, which protested alleged media bias in favor of Enrique Peña Nieto, express their criticism and hopes for Mexico: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVvju2E3qcc (02:42)
- This 2013 video from Aljazeera News discusses education reforms, teacher protests, and the arrest of Elba Esther Gordillo, the head of the teachers’ union: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/201322724427206838.html (02:25)
- In this 2014 video, the leader of Knights Templar cartel known as “La Tuta” discusses his position on the government’s efforts to combat crime, poverty, and the defense of local territory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69IzMbVG6o (05:58)
- This 2015 video shows how people from a town in Guerrero shut down local government and set up their own council in protest of corruption and violence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXd8JlI_W4 (09:32)
Links
- This website contains a PBS News Hour interview with candidate (and future president) Vicente Fox: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america-jan-june00-fox_3-21/
- This U.S. Department of State website contains an overview of the Merida Initiative: http://www.state.gov/j/inl/merida/
- This website contains statistics regarding corruption in Mexico relative to that of other countries: http://www.transparency.org/country#MEX
- This World Bank website contains analysis of Mexico's economy policies, discussion of poverty, and statistics: http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/mexico
- This website contains information, including beautiful photographs, on the Sierra Gorda Biosphere: http://sierragorda.net/en/reserva-de-la-biosfera-sierra-gorda/
- This website from Reporters Without Borders documents violence against journalists in Mexico: http://en.rsf.org/mexico.html
- This website from the investigative reporting team of Aristegui Noticias discusses a scandal caused by President Peña Nieto's $7 million home: http://aristeguinoticias.com/0911/mexico/mexican-presidents-white-house/
- This website contains graphs that compare education in Mexico to other countries: http://www.oecd.org/edu/Mexico_EAG2013%20Country%20Note.pdf
- This Aljazeera News website discusses the gay rights movement in Mexico: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/01/mexico-gay-rights-movement-gaining-ground-2014126125256612949.html
- This website discusses the kidnapping of 43 students from Ayotzinapa and the controversies that followed: http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/bring-back-mexicos-missing-ayotzinapa-students/