Guest Post by Hugo Salinas Price
History does not repeat, but certain patterns of events do recur in political life.
Of course, it is impossible to predict political events with any hope of accuracy. However, we can observe how societies of the past have dealt with the problem of maintaining order in public life. Perhaps we shall see that similar problems of the past, will turn out to be dealt with by similar measures, applied in the present.
Three cases of great social disorder in the past hundred years: