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Fran y Barbara que deconstruyen la antropología
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Today was probably one of the most important days in Mexican politics for the year.AMLO va a desafuero. The governor of Mexico City lost his immunity status and is being tried for a petty crime (what's the crime? building a road for hospital that goes through private land). The governor, known as AMLO, is one of the most popular political figures in the country. The presidential elections are in 2006, and if he runs, it's sure that he will win. He's from PRD, a leftist party critical of PRI and PAN. So, to stop him from running, Fox, PAN, (and probably some American interests too) are charging him on this case. While, at the same time, the officials who run this country are more corrupt than Halliburton. Here's a better report on the situation.

Today, over 100,000 people crowded the Zocalo to demonstrate against this. And where was I? Sleeping. It was like 8am when all this was starting. Then, instead of checking it out like a good indymedia journalist, I went to the Anthropology Museum with Fran and Barbara. It was nice. As we toured the indigenous history of mesoamerica, we talked about the imperialism of the Aztecs, the umbligo of the diosas, y mas.

Outside the Museum was a large pole where four men were hanging from ropes spinning downward in spirals. I can't really explain it, but we talked to one of the performers afterward on camera and I'll try to upload it later.

Afterwards, we walked through his personal geography of Mexico City, including Zona Rosa and Col. Roma. We talked about tactical media in Latin America, the past borderhacks, nettime, hacktivism and Michael Hardt. The interview will be broadcast next Tuesday on radioActive sanDiego.

I missed the Autonomia conference at UNAM. And i forgot to go to the Centro de Medios Libres to do an interview.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a lecture by Barbara, a Colombian net-artist, about art and technology.

Hasta manana.

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