This mural shows a small camera snapshot of Mexico. Both the good and the bad. Mexico and other Latin American countries have often had a common struggle between the Indigenous culture and our advancing modern tidal wave of influences.

On the right here we have a man named Sub Commandante Marcos. Marcos is the leader of Mexico's current revolution. He stands for the majority of Mexico's native population. What has this man so relentlessly put his life on the line for? What is his cause? Recently Mexico, the US and Canada signed and agreement called NAFTA. NAFI'A lifted many of the tariffs between the US Mexico and Canada. They're by initializing free un taxable trade between these three countries. Now Mexican corn farmers must compete with US farmers for corn sales. Mexican farmers do not get subsidies from their government and there for can not compete with the US farmers that do receive subsidies. Now Mexican farmers are forced to sell their land. These farmers land is their lively hood and currently is the only way these people have to obtain the necessities of life, such as food, clothing and shelter. They have decided to revolt. They revolt to save their culture, their way of life.

This corn that lines the edges of our mural is at the very heart of this revolution. The corn was and is how these people made a living. It is how they feed their children; it is what they have survived upon for centuries. NAFTA took both their corn and their land away form them. In doing that, NAFTA the symbol of modern society and world globalism cut off that which kept these people alive.

Going back further into Mexican history we find the man, Emiliano Zapata. Zapata was also a revolutionary leader who fought for the people just like Sub Commandante Marcos currently does. In Zapata's case the Mexican government actually took the common peoples land away. Zapata fought for redistribution of land that had in that case been stolen from the people.

Finally we travel even further back in the Mexican way of life as we see a member of this old and ancient culture know as the Aztecs. This warrior who came before both Marcos and Zapata was possibly one of the first Mexico's people witness the first part of this blasting tidal wave of modernization. He represents part of the old native Mexican culture that was untouched by European influences. He shows how life was before the Spanish came. And he will later be the first to interact and eventually battle with this foreigner form another land.

These mountains in the background are Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl which are in Mexico. There is an Aztec myth why they look like two people. It basically goes that Ixtaccihuatl was an Aztec princess and she loved a prince, Popocatepetl, of another tribe. Her father, the emperor, didn't approve and the only way they could get married was for his tribe to help the Aztecs against their enemies. When Popocatepetl agreed, he and his tribe were sent to war. Ixtaccihuatl's father told her that Popocatepetl had died when he really hadn't. She got very sick and died in the valley where the mountains are.

When Popocatepetl got back, he mourned her death and held her. While this was going on it snowed and they froze there.

The temple here represents the indigenous culture and region of the Aztecs, Mayans, and other peoples in Mexico that has been almost completely lost through the passage of time.

The sun really pictures a bright future that is possible for all of Latin America and the world if everything falls into place and things turn out right. But there is also a chance that the future could go away from the bright possibilities that are on the horizon.

We have quoted Sub-comandante Marcos here in the sun. Marcos and these bases for support are really the key to achieving a bright future and if they are successfully stifled from accomplishing what they're after then the bright future goes with them.

The conquistador is shown as part of the wave of suppression and globalism. This is because the conquistador came from Spain to conquer the New World for wealth, gold, and land. One of the most famous conquistador leaders was Herman Cortes. Conquistadors were at their height in the 16th century. During this time period they conquered the Aztecs by killing, deceiving, and slaughtering them in an inhuman manner.

Another event that follows the same pattern as the conquistadors and Aztecs is the Mexican Army. Currently the Mexican Army is helping the Mexican government to suppress the indigenous people (zapatistas) who are uprising against injustices (mostly for the corn farmers of Mexico).

The NAFTA Secretariat is comprised of the U.S., Canadian, and Mexican sections. The NAFTA Secretariat is responsible for the provision of assistance to the commission, support for various non﷓dispute﷓related committees and working groups, and the administration of dispute settlement provisions of Agreement. NAFTA was one of the most important issues that triggered the modern Mexican Revolution. It helps cause the Mexican Revolution by forcing corn farmers to lose profits by unfair competition with the U.S. farmers. The affects of this is many corn farms are being abandon from the corn farmers who can't compete with the cheaper, manufactured U.S. corn markets. There is no choice for these farmers to revolt against this cause.

This mural is trying to ask some very essential and important questions. They are: will the future (globalism) bring social justice to Mexico? Is what is lost in an indigenous culture really worth what is gained from globalism? Is the wave of the future really wanted?