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Mexico

The increasing neoliberalism imposed by Mexico’s elite, has moved the struggle of the poor and working class into a new phase. Condemnation is not enough. Indigenous peoples and organized collectives are preparing for intense and sustained resistance.

Jorge Alonso

Mexico’s politicians and economic elites have introduced economic reforms that are intensifying the plundering neoliberal model. The major parties are proud to have promoted these reforms, which are handing the country over to large capitalist corporations. The government has promised improvements but Mexico continues to be affected by serious economic difficulties while the major environmental disasters provoked by extractive policies go unpunished.

Peña Nieto’s second presidential report contained a lot of propaganda, but little transparency and garnered scant public approval. Faced with limited results from the reforms, the government tried to defend itself by saying they aren’t magic solutions and the benefits will only begin to be seen after many years. In international circles, Mexico is said to have changed, but the change has only been for the worse and disillusionment and discontent are growing.

In this context, indigenous peoples and collectives have intensified their resistance while the regime has stepped up its repression. Pablo González Casanova sustains that the country’s long night of neoliberalism is getting darker. He believes it is no longer enough to denounce the illegality of the government’s reforms and people should prepare themselves for a new period of resistance. He insists on the need for consistency of thought and action to confront “the policy of carrots, sticks, corruption and repression.” At the same time, he praises the rise in organization among groups belonging to the emancipatory movements.

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Compañeros: ¡Viva el amor Universal! ¡Viva la emancipación de la mujer! ¡Arriba el Comunismo! ¡Viva la humanidad libre! ¿Mujeres? ¡A la lucha!
María Luisa Marín, 1923

When female prostitutes in the Veracruz working class neighborhood of La Huaca quit paying rent to their landlords in February of 1922, they sparked a social protest that would soon involve more than half the city’s population. Fed up with bad housing conditions, excessive rents and constant harassment by rent collectors, residents of some of port’s poorest neighborhoods along with local anarchists and members of the Mexican Communist Party founded the Revolutionary Syndicate of Tenants (Sindicato Revolucionario de Inquilinos) directed by local agitator Herón Proal. As the mobilization grew, protesters first called for specific housing reforms but then added a number of other demands influenced by the internationalist ideals of the time : the abolition of private property, the emancipation of workers and the eventual elimination of the state.

Demonstrations involved hundreds of men, women and children. By the end of May, approximately 30,000 had stopped paying rent. At this time, the occupants of more than 100 tenements (patios de vecindad)–consisting of a collection of rooms situated around a central courtyard where residents shared cooking and bathing facilities–displayed red banners and signs which read: “I am on strike and not paying rent” (Estoy en huelga y no pago renta!). Once the protest was underway, regular confrontations between landlords, tenement administrators, uncooperative renters, market salespeople, police and politicians helped create a tumultuous social climate that persisted for much of the 1920s.

With the help of populist governor Adalberto Tejeda, protesters established what they called the “communist” settlement (colonia comunista) on the edge of town and also began or

President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924

For other uses, see Álvaro Obregón (disambiguation).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Obregón and the second or maternal family name is Salido.

Álvaro Obregón Salido (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈalβaɾooβɾeˈɣon]; 19 February 1880 – 17 July 1928) was a Mexican military general, inventor and politician who served as the 46th President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Obregón was re-elected to the presidency in 1928 but he was assassinated before he could take office.

Born in Navojoa, Sonora, Obregón joined the Revolution after the February 1913 coup d'état that brought General Victoriano Huerta to the presidency. Obregón supported Sonora's decision to follow Governor Venustiano Carranza as leader of the northern revolutionary coalition, the Constitutionalist Army, against the Huerta regime. Obregón quickly became the Constitutionalist Army's most prominent general, along with Pancho Villa. Carranza appointed Obregón commander of the revolutionary forces in northwestern Mexico. The Constitutionalists defeated Huerta in July 1914, and the Federal Army dissolved in August. In 1915, the revolution entered a new phase of civil war between the Conventionists led by Emiliano Zapata and Villa versus Obregón and Carranza. Obregón was made leader of the Constitutionalist army and defeated Villa, but lost his right arm. In 1917, the Constitution of Mexico went into effect and the Conventionists forces were quickly getting defeated by Obregón and the Constitutionalist Army. Carranza stepped down from the presidency and designated Ignacio Bonillas to succeed him. Obregón and other Sonoran generals Plutarco Elías Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta ousted Bonillas and Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta. Obregón was elected to the presidency in 1920 with overwhelming popular support.

Obregón's presidency saw educational reform, the flourishing of Mexican muralism, moderate land refo