Peasant and indigenous movements in Mexico

Abstract

After the rising of the zapatista movement in Chiapas, the peasant and indigenous movilization is still present, although with less strength, despite the advance and consolidation of the neoliberal model. In this way, there are many conflicts for megaprojects and the opposition to the dispossession of the commons. In those conflicts there are successful cases of resistance. This article pretends to do a count of some of the most notorious social movements of the Mexican countryside, after the Zapatista movement. Particularly, the case of the “Movimiento El Campo No Aguanta Más”, the struggle of “San Salvador Atenco” for defending its land, and the case of Wirikuta against the rapacious mining. At last, we´ll talk more deeply about the “policía comunitaria” of Guerrero and the resistance of the people of the mountain to the dispossession of its territory.