Miguel C. Vassallo

Counterinsurgency and Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Chiapas (1994–1995): The Chiapas 94 Campaign Plan and the Open Investigation into the So-Called Earth-Mars Plan

This essay examines the counterinsurgency strategy deployed by the Mexican State in Chiapas between 1994 and 1995, focusing on the documented "Chiapas 94 Campaign Plan" and the unresolved question of the so-called "Earth-Mars Plan." Drawing on Inter-American Court of Human Rights...

Socialism, communism and conceptual framework

This article examines socialism and communism as a heterogeneous family of normative theories, economic diagnoses, and institutional projects. It distinguishes among utopian socialism, classical Marxism, socialist anarchism, Marxism-Leninism, social democracy, democratic socialis...