Chiapas response: Revolt

January 1, 1994 - First day of NAFTAZapatista Liberation Army work land housing food health care education

Mexican State Solution

Militarization

Case-study: Tijuana

Tijuana: dynamic economy

Global reorganization of capital in late 2Oth Century

Based on export of production to low-wage, weak labor-organization areas.

Divided Tijuana: Divided Medicine

Elite: businessmen and managers

Private medicine

Workers:

Social Security

U.S. citizens (San Diego residents & retirees in Baja C.)

Private medicine (including alternative medicine)

Medicare Mexico (new!)

Cross-border health insurance

Families of San Diego workers

The underclass: migrants, Indians, poor

Tijuana: Alternative Medicine Clinics

Kuhnau Center: specializes in Embryonic Shark Tissue/Live Cell Therapy.

“For more information call the Tijuana office at 0115266-83-51-51 (the secretary speaks English).”

The Militarization of the Border:A Public Health Problem

Operation Gatekeeper, initiated in 1994

Attempt to seal the border: changing strategy

Low apprehension count = success

border fence

high-tech instruments

Increase of deaths since Operation Gatekeeper

Border Crossing Deaths by Geographic Sector

43

18

38

21

37

52

39

106

0

30

60

90

120

150

1995 1996 1997 1998

San Diego Imperial Valley

Death at the border

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1994 1995 1996 1997 1998

Year

Border Crossing Deaths in CaliforniaBy Causes of Death: 1994-1998

Homicides

Injuries

Drownings

Weather

Death at the border

AIDS Deaths and Border Crossing Deaths

Conclusion

Democracy

Global Equity