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“…those who propagate the semblance of liberation which only covers up the reality of capitalist perversion…” (Žižek 2012: 18). Even though this is Žižek’s definition of “scroundels,” I find it more than apt for “progressives.”
Mostly but not restricted to those who were students (high school, professional and university) and active politically in 1968 in Mexico.
Literally, red iridescent points—meaning to locate and focus a specific plan for its expansion over space and time—also referred as “foquismo” in other parts of Latin America.
The countryside: not as a descriptive or analytical category but as a political representation in which simpler folk lived in agrarian communities abiding the Agrarian Law and based their interactions on peasant codes of reciprocity and solidarity.
Quoted from Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro’s Kenote address “Immanence and Fear, Or, The Enemy First” to the CASCA Anual Meeting in Toronto, 2007.
Those entitled to and derived rights in an agrarian community of communal land tenure.
The 6-year period that the president and governors hold office and for which there is no consecutive re-election.
“Common law” for municipalities, written by cosmopolitan intellectuals and local politicians but justified as the collective will of “millennial” consuetudinary practices of allegedly pre-colonial indigenous origin. Even though most of the “indigenous” features correspond to the colonial period and most of the municipal territorial division dates back to the revolutionary period, the relevance of an “indigenous actor” is a neoliberal byproduct of electoral struggles in recent sexenios.
Land grants issued by the revolutionary state to be worked collectively. They differ from communal lands because, among other things, the origin of these later has to be found in royal grants by the Crown during the colony.
PROCEDE (Programa de Certificación de Derechos Ejidales y Titulación de Solares Urbanos), a certification program of land grant rights for the countryside and the issuing of urban lots.
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Macip, R.F. Greenwashing and managing focos rojos in rural Mexico. Dialect Anthropol 38, 95–104 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-014-9332-7
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