Mexico

Social Movements in Mexico City

17 Mexico City

Indigenous Nahuatl campesinos, or small farmers, erect a planton, or encampment, and demonstrate every day on the Reforma in downtown Mexico City. The farmers come from the "Four Hundred Towns," a rural area in Veracruz, and are protesting displacement from their lands, a prime reason for the migration of people to the United States. A woman embroiders traditional designs on a blouse while sitting in the planton.

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