Mexico's Democratic Transformation
Since the early 19th Century, Mexico has been immersed in a Herculean struggle with its internal contradictions, with its demons and its visions of greatness. Three hundred years earlier, the ancient Aztec Empire, a highly organized yet profoundly inhumane civilization, had been obliterated by the Spanish, who proceeded to construct on its ashes their own notoriously cruel colonial utopia - New Spain. After Mexico's independence, which was itself the product of a long and bloody struggle, innumerable revolutions and counterrevolutions wracked the country over the span of a century. Thus the longest part of Mexican history has been written in blood and oppression.
But in 2005, a lone young man, a direct descendant of the dispossessed indigenous, finds himself face to face with the most powerful man in Mexico, and before the entire world dares to accuse him of murder. What happens to this foolhardy young protester? Absolutely nothing. This concise drama crystallizes into a single image the character of Mexico's fundamental transformation: from a nation composed of conquerors and the conquered to a nation of free men and women . . . to be continued
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