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Street Democracy Vendors, Violence, and Public
Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (The
Mexican Experience)
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No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the
omnipresence of street vendors, selling products
ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared
food and clothes. The vendors composea large
part of the informal economy, which altogether
representsat least 30 percentof
Mexico8217seconomically active population.
Neither taxed nor monitored by the government,
the informal sector is the fastest growing
economic sector in the world. In
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Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola
Garc237aexplores the political lives and
economic significance of this otherwise
overlooked population, focusing on the radical
street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in
Puebla, Mexico8217sfourth-largest city. She
shows how the Popular Union of Street Vendors
challenged the ruling party8217sability to
control unions and local authorities8217power
to regulate the use of public space. Since
vendors could not strike or stop production like
workers in the formal economy, they devised
innovative and alternative strategies to protect
their right to make a living in public spaces.
By examining the political activism and
historical relationship of street vendors to the
ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),
Mendiola Garc237aoffers insights into
grassroots organizing, the Mexican Dirty War,
and the politics of urban renewal, issues that
remain at the core of street vendors8217experie
nce even today.
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