POLI+385+Mid-Term


 * POLI 385 POLITICS OF DEVELOPING NATIONS MID-TERM STUDY GUIDE**

4 x 6 card front and back ok Bring blue book. Write in pen--blue or black ink. Use paragraphs.

Study for our exam as if you were telling your best friend the key issues we have covered so far in our course.

Use the material from the links below to weave together your narrative.

I. Overview issues of political development. Think through these in relation to Mexico. http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/POLI+385+Template

II. Congressional Research Service Mexico: Background and U.S. Relations http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42917.pdf

III. Your reaction to and what you learned from each of these:

Congressional Research Service President Obama's $1 Billion Foreign Aid Request for Central America http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IN10237.pdf

Congressional Research Service U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation After "El Chapo" Guzmán's January 2016 Recapture http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IN10326.pdf

The Story of the Conquistadors (BBC History) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/conquistadors_01.shtml

Mexican history timeline http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-19828041

The Annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War, and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/texas-annexation

Five myths about Mexico http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22373654

Mexico Smuggler Interview | PBS FRONTLINE http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/mexico704/interview/smuggler.html

Factors that influence migration: Coyotes and Alien Smuggling https://www.utexas.edu/lbj/uscir/binpapers/v3a-6lopez.pdf

Central American Migrants and “La Bestia”: The Route, Dangers, and Government Responses http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/central-american-migrants-and-la-bestia-route-dangers-and-government-responses

Step by step on a desperate trek by migrants through Mexico http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/world/americas/mexico-migrants-central-america.html?ref=nyt-es

A Smuggled Girl’s Odyssey of False Promises and Fear http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/world/americas/a-smuggled-girls-odyssey-guatemala-migration-abduction.html?_r=0

The Refugees at our door http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/the-refugees-at-our-door.html?_r=0

Mexico steps up deportation of Central American migrants https://mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/mexico-steps-up-deportations-of-central-american-migrants/

As immigration resurges, U.S. public schools help children find their footing https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/as-immigration-resurges-us-public-schools-help-children-find-their-footing/2016/02/07/6855f652-cb55-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab993f_story.html

Remittances Remittances to Latin America Recover—but Not to Mexico []

Mexico got more revenue from remittances than from oil https://mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/mexico-got-more-money-from-remittances-than-from-oil-revenues-in-2015/

From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century []

Unauthorized Immigrants: How Pew Research Counts Them and What We Know About Them []

Unauthorized Immigrants in the U.S., 2012 []

Hispanics of Mexican Origin in the United States, 2011 []

How Mexicans Became Americans []

Mexico: The US Border Patrol’s newest hire http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/mexico-us-borderpatrolsecurityimmigrants.html

A snapshot of Catholics in Mexico (Pew Research Center) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/10/a-snapshot-of-catholics-in-mexico-pope-francis-next-stop/

5 facts about Mexico and immigration to the United States (Pew Research Center) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/11/mexico-and-immigration-to-us/

Pope's visit to Mexico comes as the country struggles with many ills http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/world/americas/franciss-visit-to-mexico-comes-as-country-struggles-with-many-ills.html?_r=0

Tensions simmer as Cubans breeze across US border http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/13/us/as-cubans-and-central-americans-enter-us-the-welcomes-vary.html

Zapatistas

The Zapatista's Mysterious Leader http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1214676.stm

Struggling on: Zapatistas 20 years after the uprising http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-25550654

Rebellion in Chiapas and the Mexican Military http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB109/

Tlateloloco (1968)

Massacre en Tlatelolco [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw2KsKXrF5o&feature=youtu.be

Mexico Digs at Last for Truth About 1968 Massacre - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/world/mexico-digs-at-last-for-truth-about-1968-massacre.html

The Tlatelolco Massacre http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB99/

Ayotzinapan

Ayotzinapa--Mexico’s Missing Forty-Three: One Year, Many Lies, and a Theory That Might Make Sense http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/mexicos-missing-forty-three-one-year-many-lies-and-a-theory-that-might-make-sense

Profile of Zetas http://www.insightcrime.org/mexico-organized-crime-news/zetas-profile

Why cartels are killing Mexico's mayors http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/why-cartels-are-killing-mexicos-mayors.html

Mexico most dangerous country for priests http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/mexico-pope-visit-most-dangerous-country-for-priests

Inside a mass for Mexico's "Santa Muerte" http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/inside-a-mass-for-mexico-s-santa-muerte

Deadly riot illustrates Mexico's prison woes http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/deadly-riot-illustrates-mexico-prison-woes

For reporters in Mexico, journalist's death underscores job's growing danger http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-city-safety-death-20150802-story.html

How they feel about El Chapo in his home state http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/world/americas/an-uncertain-new-chapter-in-sinaloa-el-chapos-home-state.html

How Mexico’s Most-Wanted Drug Lord Escaped From Prison (Again) http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/13/world/americas/mexico-drug-kingpin-prison-escape.html

How El Chapo Was Finally Captured, Again http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/americas/mexico-el-chapo-sinaloa-sean-penn.html?_r=0

Silver or Lead: The drug cartel La Familia gives local officials a choice: Take a bribe or a bullet. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/31/silver-or-lead

Proven unfit, Mexican cops stay on the job http://www.eldailypost.com/news/2015/07/proven-unfit-cops-stay-on-their-job/

Mexico police reform: how might it work? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30267017

Policing in Mexico https://mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/policing-in-mexico/

Falling asleep to grenades: Mexicans tell Pope how they live http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/world/americas/mexico-pope-francis-visit.html

Widespread police corruption in Tijuana http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/report-indicates-widespread-police-corruption-tijuana-mexico

A Bus Takes a Local Route to Fighting Mexican Corruption http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/world/americas/a-bus-takes-a-local-route-to-fighting-mexican-corruption.html?_r=0

Crime and Corruption Top Problems in Emerging and Developing Countries http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/11/06/crime-and-corruption-top-problems-in-emerging-and-developing-countries/

Fighting corruption in the developing countries (OECD Observer) http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/archivestory.php/aid/291/Fighting_corruption_in_the_developing_countries.html