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Agree with swears. You must have specific things in mind josef.

Why? What's prompted this....?

very interesting thanks man - i guess this just highlights the complexities of a) social relations in general; and b) being an "outsider" trying to interpret such relations.

Documentary: 'A Place Called Chiapas' This is worth watching for anyone wanting to get a feel for the Zapatista movement, its history, evolution, values, methods, difficulties etc.

So in 1998 my uncle spent two weeks in a village called La Soledad (Chiapas) as a neutral observer attached to the Fray Bartolome Centre for Human Rights based in San Cristobal de las Casas. He says: La Soledad is a divided village of betweeen 70-90 households: and the divisions are...

I for one would be very interested to hear you expand on this point. Its always hard to make a judgement of something (like the EZLN \ broader Zapatista social movement) from afar - though the media - when it clearly polarises opinion to such a degree.

sure this makes sense in chiapas -- i'll be more specific when i've got his work to hand.

Incidentally my uncle - an anthropologist - spent a relatively short time as a neutral observer in one village which was certainly divided in a similar way to the one you describe padraig. I have a copy of the report he submitted so i'll dig it out when i get home later and see if there's any...

Chiapas is among Mexico’s poorest, most marginalized states. By most measures of misery, it scores far worse than the Mexican average. The EZLN’s local agenda—for better education and medical services, electricity, paved roads, etc.—resonated with the indigenas because of the awful poverty and...

Are you sure that the communities are as united as you present. Read/saw somewhere suggestions that the communities were actually quite divided as to whether to adopt armed struggle or continue peaceful pressure for reform. Apparently once a vote was taken and passed in favour of support for the...

I'm not disputing the validity of this in purely economic terms. But there are social/cultural implications which need to be considered. Padraig is in a better position to flesh this out but i think its highly unlikely that such policies - "moving away from small holder farms and towards...

Good work Vim... keep it coming mate!!

Gerard Prunier - The Eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict Not a new article (Nov 2008) but gives a deep historical analysis with reflections on the current situation.

Excellent report: Piracy in Somalia: Threatening Global Trade, Feeding Local Wars And Gerard Prunier analyses the current political landscape (in all its complexity): Somalia: beyond the quagmire

Can Mexico learn from Colombia's drug war? Mexico: State of War - from Foreign Policy. Scary stuff: The former U.S. drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, was in Mexico not long ago, and this is what he found: The outgunned Mexican law enforcement authorities face armed criminal attacks from...

Any thoughts?

I find the idea that jungle and the hardcore continuum have been the sole source(s) of innovation in electronic music over the last 20 years to be highly dubious. But i am as yet unconvinced that this is being argued by anyone - Kpunk included.

And this equates to a CLEAR and EMPHATIC statement "that ALL INNOVATION IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC for the PAST 20 YEARS is thanks only to JUNGLE and the HARDCORE CONTINUUM" ?? Hmm. Don't seem that way to me Nomad.

FWIW (and i know that it ain't much in the context of this discussion) this sounds like utter bollox to me! Are you sure he says this? You haven't misinterpreted or exaggerated the claim?

Did anyone ACTUALLY claim this to be the case? Or are you just having random emotional reactions to things you imagine that people are saying?