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Social movements in Mexico: local roots, global struggles

This series sheds a light on a range of struggles rooted in local communities and daily life that oppose violence and never reach the headlines. Español

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The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles.

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Police repress peaceful rally for 43 missing students in Mexico. Débora Poo Soto/Demotix. All rights reserved.

Mexico is considered the best case scenario by Joseph Stiglitz for studying the impact of free trade agreements and a neoliberal economy on a developing country[1]. It is definitively also one of the most insightful countries when it comes to social movements - and these two insights are not unconnected.