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Examines the formation of independent labor unions, including the National Union of Workers, to rival the government-authorized Mexican Confederation of Workers, and government efforts to repress them. Some focus on unions active in the maquiladora industry, cross-border union cooperation with the US, and on formation of a union of dissident Mexican teachers.

Describes the enmeshing of drug trafficking and money laundering with commercial and financial transactions in a global economy, and the advantage to traffickers of low trade barriers, deregulation, and relaxed international banking standards.

Discusses the impact of the Nahua plan to reassert authority over a remote corner of La Montana, in Guerrero, Mexico, by creating a Nahua municipality. Although the Nahua proposal is a carefully considered step toward forging a framework for pluralism in existing legal structure, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which has dominated Mexican politics since 1929, has stonewalled the proposal & threatened its proponents. Nonetheless, the idea has spread: in the eastern half of Guerrero, five other proposals to establish Indian municipalities have been put forth, & all are now being coordinated by the Guerrero Council of 500 Years of Indigeneous Resistance. M. Maguire