writer 0 2003-02-23T00:00:00Z In the 1930s and 40s, General Lazaro Cardenas made nationalization of economic resources and land reform symbols of Mexican national sovereignty. Nationalist economic development, however, was overthrown as the bedrock of the country's economic strategy when technocrats took power in the former ruling Party of the Institutionalized Revolution in the 1970s. Today the Mexican economy looks nothin... David 46685 false false false false 2003-02-23T00:00:00Z Bacon 3108 10913 0 1 Showdown Over Privatization In Mexico showdown-coming-in-mexico-over-privatization-by-david-bacon Showdown Coming In Mexico Over Privatization 2009-09-25T08:30:07Z 282