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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the Mexican Dirty War – a guerilla war waged between various revolutionary left movements and the right-wing dictatorship of Mexico backed by the USA.
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Please make a video about the 1964 military coup in Brasil
Institutional…. not industrial
Mexican government was way too lenient with those kinds. There's no such thing as too much violence when you are dealing with socialism
I learned of the 1968 massacres of students 35 years ago in Donald Kates' book Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out. Good examples of what we can expect when we let a government talk us into giving up the means of defending ourselves against authoritarian officials that act on behalf of criminal elites.
It's nice that you are covering a somewhat obscure conflict, but I feel it's somewhat unbalanced too much attention to what the PRI did but not what the guerillas did, the PRI was horrible but the guerillas were not "good" either. They kidnapped and killed civilians, charged protection money and many became druglords. The state of Guerrero is still one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country due in part to groups linked to those guerillas doing a lot of crimes.
On another point: the PRI was not really right wing, it changed policies and ideology a lot but at the time was more center-left, they did like isolationism, state control of the economy and public services.
Fascinating piece of Cold War history that I had never heard about. Thanks David.
The PRI was left wing.
This really set up the foundation for EZLN and Sub-commander Marcos.
All these leftist insurgent groups throughout the world were not all representing the common interest of the poor, oppressed… Just look to what happened in Cuba, Cambodia, Nicaragua, etc. A small group of the total population that gained absolute power and who were as ruthless as the previous regimes. Did these governments ever held popular elections? You could be jailed or persecuted just for asking. Free compulsory education? True, as long as the new government chose what you could read or write. Freedom to join a union? As long you joined the state’s own. The grievances against these
Popular “ regimes were endless. That is why no sane Polish, Croatian, Slovene… want their return. I have many grievances against the Mexico’s PRI, but fighting these leftist groups is not one of them. Excellent episode ✋🏻
If this topic interests you in a cinematic way, try this out Canoa-A Shameful Memory (1976) MEXICO.
I feel this vid downplayed the role of the war on drugs in the conflict, from the sixties on areas of countryside would be swept in anti-narcotics operations and casualties labelled 'pushers' or 'traffickers' after execution by armed forces. During the war on drugs crackdowns would up-end distribution networks and violence would skyrocket culminating in the chaos of the nineties and early 2000s when more died south of the border than in Iraq or Afghanistan and different parts of the armed forces fought for different cartels.
The Dirty War never ended.
Well done America.
Backed the anti democratic psychos.
Consistent, aren't you.
Great video 👍
anyone who can see what the CIA perpetrated in latin america in the last century, entirely to protect US and multinational capital interests, who does not realise which was the side of the cold war fighting against human progress is a rank fool. same with their sponsoring of terrorism in europe. it was not for "freedom" or "democracy" but profit and US hegemony.
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The dirty war is often thought to initiate with the aftermath of the 1968 massacre but there had actually already been some important movements pre-1960s that were met with brutal oppression.
There was a major a railroad worker movement/strike in the 50s that partially paralyzed the nation and was of course beaten down by the government. The rail workers would again be an important part of the movements of 1968.
There were also the Jaramillistas in the state of Morelos led by Ruben Jaramillo, a former commander under Emiliano Zapata during the Mexican Revolution. The Jaramillistas fought in favor of land reform and campesino rights.
Ruben Jaramillo in fact was a big advocate of the Lazaro Cardenas administration and originally sought to work within the post-revolutionary political framework. It was with subsequent administrations that Jaramillo decided to take up arms as the conditions of the rural class became less and less of a concern for the elite.
Only a few years ago under the previous president, 43 students in Ayotzinapa were "disappeared" by a conspiracy between the military and the cartels. It spurred a huge protest movement.
There are also echoes of it is the EZLN in Chiapas, which today governs a significant portion of the state and are the descendants of part of the Mexican Left of the 1980s
I can always respect a video that covers little known subjects or time periods. Nice video.
And now Mexico is ruled over by drug cartels. Lol
It’s both sad…and interesting, that growing up at this time and living in Arizona, I was totally ignorant of these events. Thank you for this video.
Your use of the word reactionary is erroneous in the context of leftist ideology. It’s confusing because reactionary means right-wing revolutionary ideologies. A reactionary turn in a left wing party does not mean becoming more responsive to certain political conditions.
Thank you for covering this crucial and ignored issue. The Mexican White Terror has never stopped, but luckily the seeds of Mexican revolution have grown in the fertile Cuban soil. One day, the favor Mexico gave to Cuba of protecting and incubating the revolution will be returned in kind. ❤
Mild correction, but I believe this is more so a case of all of the Americas during down the barrel of the Monroe doctrine. All of the Americas is the United States is backyard.
Excellent historical coverage video about Mexican political movements clashed during First Cold War 🥶 … Mexican territory is always used by the USA 🇺🇸 states as ( Backyards) for all US interesting sites( legitimate & illegitimate fields.rather than the USA 🇺🇸 participated in all atrocities, whichever committed by central authority in Mexico city 🇲🇽 .. against lift wing revolutionaries & partials of really democratization & liberals beneath the Mexican populations … Mexicans suffered too much during these bleak years of humanity history
Thanks for covering this. Not enough attention is given to these events
thank God Mexico is not communist
Please remember nothing absolutely nothing of that happened without the blessing of the USA
Please cover the 1963 earthquake of Skopje
I can't wait until you cover the central American crisis
The legacy of these leftist socialist movements has been nothing but destructive ideologies, armed conflicts backed by drug cartels and economic downfall…
I had never heard about Operation Condor until now. Thank you for bring it up. Can you expound on it in a future video?
Funny how Castro used personal firearms to pull off his Revolution but then immediately confiscated all firearms once in power.
Great job on this video 💯☯️☯️☯️
You might at least get the name of the PRI right. It was the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or the Institutional Revolutionary Party, not the 'Industrial Revolutionary Party,' And to call the Left-wing, revolutionary, anticlerical revolutionary PRI 'right-wing' would come as a great surprise to the thousands of conservative Catholics who died at its hands in the Cristero War.
PRI is leftist.
Really good episode, interesting and overlooked topic! Your Spanish was pretty good too. I hope next episode on Latin America you can pronounce them even better. Like Aguirre, the u is silent there, and names like Vásquez are stressed on the first syllable (that’s why the accent is there), so VASquez, PErez, BoLIvar, etc
I'm Mexican and it is even more curious the ambiguous ideological position of the PRI. Initially created as a center-left party and founded by former revolutionaries, the PRI even joined the Socialist International but in the 1990's declared itself as neo-liberal. Two of the most infamous PRI Presidents, Luis Echeverría and Jose Lopez Portillo, were closer to the Socialism than to Capitalism and tried to establish a Welfare State with rural support, but at the same time were the worst enemies of the guerrillas in Guerrero. Even more, they were always supported by the US government and the CIA.
As Dali would recall later, Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.
Nowadays, our President Lopez Obrador argues to be in the "nationalist revolutionary" left-wing but he has actual conservative positions and his cabinet is formed by former PRI's dinosaurs.
You failed to mentioned that these Guerrilla movements actively engaged in kidnaping and killing civilians that they viewed as "enemies of the people" . Movimiento 23 de Septiembre assasinated prominent industrialist Eugenio Garza Sada in 1973 during a botched abduction attempt.
I would much enjoy more videos on Mexico in the twentieth century in the future. I would like to learn more about my country's southern neighbor. Thank you for this one!
Merry Christmas out there everybody! ✝️🎄
Thanks
Great job is always ! Highly informative. .
"However" ! One thing , did you refer to Mexico as a "superpower" ???
First off , does anybody have a "definitive definition of what a superpower is" ?
Between military might , economy and social standards ?
And 2, would you feel comfortable applying that combined definition to Mexico ?
Can you talk about the guerrilla movement in Venezuela? Nice work
PRI is Institutional Revolutionary Party not Industrial
Love the video but in Mexico we don't have provinces we have states.
While you might argue that PRI is right wing, the truth is that it is still/was center-left and part of the Socialist International and most of their policies are socialist: complete control "through DEMOCRACY", "help" to the farmers, "free" school building, schoolar indoctrination, corruption through the party and everybody turns a blind eye that the Mexican Communist Party was the real instigator of the 68 student movement that ended in October: you should say if loud and clear: left wing activism are communists… The Communist League of September 23rd movement at some point killed civilians (like Eugenio Garza) and also the kidnapping of the British Consul Duncan Williams, those even escaped prison and have songs about it…
PRI is renowed to be "the perfect dictatorship", which made MY country not that fragile as most of Hispanic-speaking America rough rides (economically speaking) until now…
It's nice that you are covering a somewhat obscure conflict, but I feel it's presented somewhat unbalanced. Too much attention was focused on what the PRI did but not what the guerillas did, the PRI was horrible but the guerillas were not "good" either. They kidnapped and killed civilians, charged extortion money and many became druglords. The state of Guerrero is still one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country due in part to groups linked to those guerillas commiting a lot of crime. "
Damn… I thought mexican dirty war was a kind of sex act!