Evan - this is wonderful!! A consummately researched and very well written post. I greatly appreciate the update - I wrote about the 400 pueblos on my blog back in 2012 (https://nudescribe.com/2012/04/18/naked-mexico-landless-and-landed/) but was not aware of recent developments. I hope they receive justice soon.
In the meantime, their protests provide an interesting sociological contrast to the current Día al Desnudo events (last weekend in Mexico City, this coming weekend in Guadalajara) organized by Héctor Martínez and friends. In the Día al Desnudo marches, the objective is to normalize nudity and nudism, whereas in the 400 pueblos events, as you point out, the objective is land rights and restitution. Very different goals, but in both cases nudity is a means to an end.
Yes! Hard not to notice all the images coming from Dia Al Desnudo floating around twitter (and getting international press) right now and not notice similarities with these images of masses of nude bodies in the middle of Mexico City.
Evan - this is wonderful!! A consummately researched and very well written post. I greatly appreciate the update - I wrote about the 400 pueblos on my blog back in 2012 (https://nudescribe.com/2012/04/18/naked-mexico-landless-and-landed/) but was not aware of recent developments. I hope they receive justice soon.
In the meantime, their protests provide an interesting sociological contrast to the current Día al Desnudo events (last weekend in Mexico City, this coming weekend in Guadalajara) organized by Héctor Martínez and friends. In the Día al Desnudo marches, the objective is to normalize nudity and nudism, whereas in the 400 pueblos events, as you point out, the objective is land rights and restitution. Very different goals, but in both cases nudity is a means to an end.
Yes! Hard not to notice all the images coming from Dia Al Desnudo floating around twitter (and getting international press) right now and not notice similarities with these images of masses of nude bodies in the middle of Mexico City.