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The paper examines key debates within and regarding contemporary internationalist movements in Mexico and Germany. The starting point is the discussion on New Internationalism, originating in the practices and ideas of groups in solidarity with and anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements in the global South since the 1970s, which were subsequently discussed, expanded, and transformed within various social struggles. Employing a qualitative content analysis, we reconstruct common themes, similarities and divergences in texts authored by the EZLN and BUKO from 1996 to 2021. The findings reveal that common references to the contents of New Internationalism exist in the examined texts, yet are interpreted differently along situated struggles and experiences of oppression and marginalization. Connecting elements are forms of intersectional critique of domination, as well as the rejection of the idea of a revolutionary subject, an avant-garde, a principal contradiction, and the taking over of state power. Simultaneously, the analysed texts emphasize the necessity of transnational struggles and global networking against capitalism to counteract planetary destruction and exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Fair Trade in Mexico as a tool for rural development? Taking Mexico as an example, this paper examines the potential of Fair Trade as a rural development strategy. It is argued that Fair Trade's impact on rural development needs to be analyzed in the context of other income strategies that the rural poor pursue. I discuss migration and participation in Fair Trade as different possibilities to generate income in rural areas and assess their abilities to stimulate rural development. My findings suggest that participation in Fair Trade results in some positive effects on the livelihoods of the rural population. These effects stem from strengthening Fair Trade Cooperatives and the existence of broader Mexican Fair Trade Institutions. Whereas Fair Trade includes some possibilities for rural development, I argue that, nevertheless, Fair Trade has to be combined with broader and multiple development strategies to substantially improve rural livelihoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Under the pressure of NAFTA negotiations Mexican government changed the agrarian legislation at the beginning of the 1990. This reform meant turning away from the former leitmotiv of social justice brought up in the revolution towards the neoliberal paradigm of economic efficiency. The old system of subsedies and and institutional support was replaced by a market- and export orientation, the priority of community land was replaced by the primacy of private property rights in order to capitalize the Mexican agriculture. This paper analyses whether the goals of increasing productivity and changing the production structure where achieved. There are three basic outcomes from the reforms: small scale farmers have los market shares and depend on non-agricultural incomes. Secondly, the trading of land is marginal, as export goods are produced on a small share of productive land and the agricultural corporations have many alternative to the purchase Hof land. The capitalization of agricultural enterprises has also been minimal. These results cause a regional concentration of agricultural corporations and lead to a further marginalization Hof small scale farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's views on the existence of corruption in justice administration of colonial courts of Guadalajara and Mexico City in Mexico. Topics discussed include malpractices of colonial Mexicans in 18th century, crimes committed by Mexican judges and forgery in appellate courts. It further discusses verdicts on corruption as released by Mexican justice administration, judicial pluralism in the Mexican system, scandals in political system of Guadalajara, Mexico and punishments of forgery.

The article discusses the international press coverage of protest events and the extent to which such events are reported in non-English sources. The author researches such protest and social conflict reportage in Mexico, Argentina, and Paraguay for the year 2006 and traces which event reports eventually also came to be part of reports in the English-language Lexis-Nexis archive or the "New York Times" newspaper coverage. Surmises are made concerning the size of protests and Latin American country of origin relative to their English-language media coverage.

Reviews the status of the German-as-a-foreign-language classroom and teacher education at the university level in Mexico, describing the teacher education course in the language center at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Also discusses distance learning in the area of German teacher training, which creates educational opportunities for current and future German teachers. (AP)