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For some decades, Indigenous peoples of Mexico have used political marches as an extra-institutional political strategy of choice. Based on ethnographic data collected in the state of Guerrero, the present article situates these marches within the broader context of the traditional exchanges of religious pilgrimages between Indigenous communities. It also argues that the parallels between these two sets of phenomena should lead us to consider the political marches as being more complex than a simple exercise of political communication between the indigenous and the non-indigenous actors. The example of the Tlapanec community of Barranca Tigre shows that the debates surrounding the organisation of a march to the state capital in the summer of 2001 were linked to the religious pilgrimages in two significant ways. First, traditional religious mobility served as a backdrop for thinking of the political march and its instrumental value; secondly, because, as with any mobilisation of pilgrims outside the established ritual calendar, the organisation of a political march is an occasion to debate and evaluate the development of the community.
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This article examines the performance of the U.S. National Security Council as a policy-making body vis-à-vis the southern African conflict under the Nixon and Ford Administrations. It discusses and verifies the hypothesis that the institutionalized System of the NSC gives the President a way of seriously improving his policies, by analyzing (within a structured and formalized framework) the range of options and alternatives, free of negative bureaucratic influences. Furthermore, it shows the impact that the presidential decisions had over the orientation of the southern African conflict from 1969 to 1976.