Meta Morphic Mexican

“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”

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Zapatista colonel AMPARO SALGADO, Teloloapan, Guerrero, 1911 (Sara Castrejón. Archive of Enrique del Rayo Castrejón.)

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Veracruz female figure, Remojadas, early classic, CA. A.D. 250-450

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Drug War as Neoliberal Trojan Horse

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ABSTRACT: Examination of the U.S.-backed wars on drugs in Colombia and Mexico reveals that, apart from the hegemonic discourse about narcotics control, these wars reinforce the power of transnational corporations over resource-rich areas owned and used by indigenous  people, peasants, and the urban poor. Case studies in Mexico demonstrate that recent assassinations of activists and intimidation of communities that are organizing against large-scale mining must be understood within the framework of militarization justified in terms of an anti-narcotics discourse. Drug war politics may thus be understood as a mechanism for promoting business-friendly policies and militarizing resource-rich areas. This  politics is enshrined in the Mérida Initiative, which includes a national U.S.- style legal reform, modernization of the prison system, and the militarization and training of the  federal police and other security forces, equipment transfers, and development funding designed to encourage foreign investment and further transnationalize the national economy.

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Mariela de la Paz - Aya Mama (2000) [Chilean-born artist]

Women Of The Earth: This series is the culmination of several years of Studies of Shamanism which eventually led me to move to Norther California to join the program of Contemporary Female Shamanism at MotherPeace Institute in Oakland. My research was initially focused on the matriarchal lineage of the Mapuche, the indigenous inhabitants of Southern Chile and their Cosmovision and their Shamanic spiritual practices.   As the series developed, the themes also expanded and cross over into the documentation of my experiences of Sacramental Plant Medicine. This series was developed over the course of 20 years and was complete in 2013 with my painting named "The Divine Masculine."  Click here for more art

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Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950) [The Forgotten Ones, AKA “The Young and the Damned”]

"The Forgotten is a film by Luis Bunuel (1950), which narrates the story of teenagers influenced by the environment in which they live. The filmmaker makes a crude attempt at social criticism and draws the past and present Mexico. It is a desert vision of the world where a disposed youth lives and whose only alternatives are crime and migration, product of a hostile, aggressive, and violent society. The film is said to be a sociological treatise full of nuances that reflect the current reality of youth in Mexico and moves us to deep reflection that hurts right now, considering that young people have historically been major players of the forgotten social our country." —Maria Teresa Prieto Quezada

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Rocío Sagaón en un ensayo del ballet 'El vuelo del alma', mayo de 1950  México  Impresión contemporánea (a partir del negativo de película de seguridad)  CONACULTA. INAH. SINAFO. FN., Pachuca, Hidalgo.

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Frida with Idol – Coyoacán – 1939

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Rosa Rolanda Covarrubias - Dancer, Painter, Photographer & Actress. Born on Sept. 6, 1895 in Los Angeles, California. Died on March 25, 1970 in Mexico City, Mexico. (Photograph by Murray Nikolas)

Read the rest of her bio here

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Arturo García Bustos - La Vida y La Muerte

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Mancacoyota by Alfredo Ramos Martínez

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Violent Narco-Cartels or US Hegemony? The political economy of the 'war on drugs' in Mexico

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ABSTRACT: Mainstream analysis and commentary on drug trafficking and related violence in Mexico focuses overwhelmingly on the narco-cartels as sources of the problem and presents the US as a well intentioned player helping to conduct a 'war on drugs' out of concern for addiction, crime and violence. This article offers an alternative interpretation, grounded in critical political economy, showing that in addition to fuelling the narcotics industry in Mexico thanks to its large drug consumption and loose firearms regulations, the US shares much responsibility for its expansion thanks to its record of support for some of the main players in the drugs trade, such as the Mexican government and military, and by implementing neoliberal reforms that have increased the size of the narcotics industry. The war on drugs has served as a pretext to intervene in Mexican affairs and to protect US hegemonic projects such as NAFTA, rather than as a genuine attack on drug problems. In particular, the drugs war has been used repeatedly to repress dissent and popular opposition to neoliberal policies in Mexico. Finally, US banks have increased their profits by laundering drug money from Mexico and elsewhere; the failure to implement tighter regulations testifies to the power of the financial community in the US.

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Echo of Scream by David Alfaro Siqueiros

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Painting by Alejandra H. Lauria

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Las Coatlicues (The Mother Earths) by Rick Ortega

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Los Fusilados (1948) by Jesús Guerrero Galván

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Alma de los Aztecas by Ricardo Ortega

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Sueño y Presentimiento by María Izquierdo