What could urge housewives, students, workers, people of religion, scientists, farmers, natives and non-natives, unemployed, enraged teenagers and peaceable elders to stand together behind the same barricade with stones in their hands?
What could lead them to seizing their town and discussing, altogether, in open assemblies, the creation of the Constitution and of the laws which will rule their lives? Hundreds of thousands of citizens managed to unite in a movement with no leaders, no commanders and no guidance from political parties. History has known very few popular uprisings as the one that took place in the South of Mexico in May, 2006.
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