El inicio del movimiento urbano popular en el Norte de México. El caso de la Comarca Lagunera: 1972-1974

Abstract

This article has the purpose of making a historical analysis of the beginning of the urban popular movement in the Northern Mexican region known as Comarca Lagunera. The central question is to establish how the “outside agents”, such as students, workers, and left-wing groups, influenced the beginning of the movement, and if this once formed goes beyond its immediate claims. The article was made through bibliographic sources, historical files, local journals, and oral testimonies from old movement activists. For that reason, this work dives into the claims that were made by the urban popular groups and the control exercised over them by the Mexican government; the social movements, and the left-wing groups that were developed in the region during the sixties and seventies, and finally the beginning of the urban popular movement since the making of the firsts colonias independientes.