Week Fourteen
The Nineties: Hello NAFTA, Adios PRI
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I. NAFTA negotiations 1992-94

- Article 27 of Constitution amended:

ejidos can be privately sold or rented
owned by corporations
no longer guaranteed

- Privatization of govt.' holdings, 85% by 1992 (Carlos Slim, Telmex)
- Pre-election spending spree by Salinas, based on foreign investment
- NAFTA approved by U.S. Nov. 1993, goes into effect Jan. 1, 1994

II. Zapatistas in Chiapas, Jan 1994

- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN)
- Subcomandante Marcos / Delegado Cero
- Bishop Samuel Ruiz

III. 1994: the PRI's "annus horribilis"

- March: Assassination of PRI presidential candidate Colosio
- August: Election of Pres. Ernesto Zedillo
- September: Assassination of PRI secretary general
- December: Mexican Peso Crisis