In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

By Kari Lydersen

For anyone who has felt confused, confounded, disappointed, disturbed and yet still enchanted by Mexico, John Gibler's Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, January) offers some relief. Gibler, an independent journalist who has lived in Mexico since December 2005, starts by deconstructing the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    I am surprised that the report of Lydersen does not mention any of the resistance created by Lopez Obrador after the election fraud.  Was such resistence covered in the book?  If not, it would be a big hole in Gibler’s story as it movilized millions of people for weeks at a time.

    Please tell me if it was Gibler or Lydersen who left out these protests in their writings; this would help me decide if I should be disappointed at the book or at the ITT article.

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