ABSTRACT
In his panorama of Mexican popular collective action between 1968 and the 1990s, Sergio Tamayo shows how one national campaign shaped the next. The transformation of popular contention, he concludes,
was a cumulative process of citizens’ actions that during the first five years of the 1990s reached a level of extensive participation, using every sort of resource, as much legal and formal as informal and violent … As for Mexico City, the citizenry appeared with great strength, certainly a result of the city’s special character as capital of the republic and urban center where regardless of its origin the national political debate concentrated.
(Tamayo 1999: 353)