What are the Prospects for a New Mexican Revolution?
By JOHN ROSS Mexico’s political metabolism incubates insurrection every 100 years. Revolutions tend to rise in the tenth year of the century – 1810 (the war of liberation from Spain) and 1910 (the Mexican Revolution) – a calendar that excites speculation about what might be on this not-so-distant neighbor nation’s plate for 2010. Further inciting expectations of upheaval is the impending demise of the Mayan life cycle – Mayan day keepers calculate that closure will occur in late 2011 or early 2012 when a new life cycle will kick in. This death and renewal of a predominant Meso-American culture is in itself a profoundly revolutionary conceit. It is perhaps pertinent to note that revolutionary change only takes flight under this timeline. The fuse for liberation from Spain was lit in 1810 but it took years to achieve independence. Similarly, 1910 was only the first act of a Mexican Revolution that a decade later finally dissipated in myth and the death of more than a million Mexicans. Al
