Mexico is agitated. The country is facing social transformations and conflicts. Those changes go from new ways of legislation to violence linked to drug trafficking and corruption. This convoluted context has fostered demonstrations, along with social and political movements all over the country. Unfortunately, mass media has focused on the violence that bleeds the country. Thus, up to now, México is better known for its violence than for its immense resistance and transformation.
Many different interests are mixed in this turbulent environment, some fairer than others and some greedier than others. Distinctive groups accuse and attack each other, at the same time that they look for empathy and understanding from society. At the end, it is believed that their leaders are the winners, the only ones reaching achievements and recognition.
There are also social movements that ask for concrete claims, such as land rights. Then again, those actions are usually unnoticed by the media. Taking this into account, this essay shows people from the Movement of the 400 nations. They are one of the many peasant and indigenous organizations looking for their rights recognition. Their way to voice their demands is protesting half naked in urban Mexican roads. Yet, this movement has been also criticized by questing its leaders. In this respect, the public opinion has expressed that they are using the members of the group to achieve their own benefits. Therefore, this movement has been compared to a circus or a fake montage.
Anyway, the resistance annoys, invites, and provokes sympathy as well as criticism. Fair or not, political manipulation or social hope ... the skin does not lie and here is its truth.
