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RESUMEN: En este artículo se estudia el devenir de los movimientos populares urbanos en México desde 1968, coincidiendo con un descenso en el apoyo popular al modelo de desarrollo practicado. Su existencia como construeción de nuevos canales de expresión se configura en tres oleadas: los primeros años de la década de 1970, el período 1979-1983, y por último, los años 1985-1988.ABSTRACT: In this article, Bennett studies the performance of the Mexican popular urban movements since 1968, and their declinning support to the political development program of the government. Its appearance and existance as a way of construction of new channels of expression is revealed in three waves: the early 1970's, the period 1979-1983, and the last one, the years 1985-1988.

Women's activities in the public sphere are the focus of this article on protests over water in the Mexican city of Monterrey in the 1970s and early 1980s. According to the author, protests over public services are gendered because they target infrastructural problems that affect domestic work or housekeeping, while they also reflect class interests in that the poor are more likely to encounter substandard services. In this context the strategies and results of women's actions in Monterrey are analized, locating the research within the circumstances of national and local water policies, including the abrupt shift from neglect to massive investment in the 1980 Hydraulic Plan and the 1984 program Water for All. (Lat Am Perspect/DÜI)

[ES] En este artículo se estudia el devenir de los movimientos populares urbanos en México desde 1968, coincidiendo con un descenso en el apoyo popular al modelo de desarrollo practicado. Su existencia como construeción de nuevos canales de expresión se configura en tres oleadas: los primeros años de la década de 1970, el período 1979-1983, y por último, los años 1985-1988. ; [EN] In this article, Bennett studies the performance of the Mexican popular urban movements since 1968, and their declinning support to the political development program of the government. Its appearance and existance as a way of construction of new channels of expression is revealed in three waves: the early 1970's, the period 1979-1983, and the last one, the years 1985-1988.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Jeffrey W. Rubin and Vivienne Bennett -- Social polarization and economic instability : twin challenges for enduring reform / Ann Helwege -- Rethinking the revolution : Latin American social movements and the state in the twenty-first century / Wendy Wolford -- The urban indigenous movement and elite accommodation in San Cristabal, Chiapas -- Mexico, 1975-2008 : tenemos que vivir nuestros anos / "We Have to Live in Our Own Times" / Jan Rus and Gaspar Morquecho Escamilla -- Democracy by invitation : the private sector's answer to participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Jeffrey W. Rubin and Sergio Gregorio Baierle -- Recuperated factories in contemporary Buenos Aires from the perspective of workers and businessmen / Carlos A. Forment -- Both sides now : the rise of migrant activism and co-investment in public works in Zacatecas, Mexico / Heather Williams and Fernando Robledo Martinez -- Speaking a business language : private sector support for the Afro Reggae cultural group / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- Business responses to progressive activism in twenty-first-century Latin America / Vivienne Bennett and Jeffrey W. Rubin -- Appendix. Enduring reform project, interview template -- Contributors -- Index.

Over the last twenty years, business responses to progressive reform in Latin America have shifted dramatically. Until the 1990s, progressive movements in Latin America suffered violent repression sanctioned by the private sector and other socio-political elites. The powerful case studies in this volume show how business responses to reform have become more open-ended as Latin America's democracies have deepened, with repression tempered by the economic uncertainties of globalization, the political and legal constraints of democracy, and shifting cultural understandings of poverty and race. Enduring Reform presents five case studies from Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina in which marginalized groups have successfully forged new cultural and economic spaces and won greater autonomy and political voice. Bringing together NGO's, local institutions, social movements, and governments, these initiatives have developed new mechanisms to work 'within the system, ' while also challenging the system's logic and constraints. Through firsthand interviews, the contributors capture local businesspeople's understandings of these progressive initiatives and record how they grapple with changes they may not always welcome, but must endure. Among their criteria, the contributors evaluate the degree to which businesspeople recognize and engage with reform movements and how they frame electoral counterproposals to reformist demands. The results show an uneven response to reform, dependent on cultural as much or more than economic factors, as businesses move to decipher, modify, collaborate with, outmaneuver, or limit progressive innovations. From the rise of worker-owned factories in Buenos Aires, to the collective marketing initiatives of impoverished Mayans in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the success of democracy in Latin America depends on powerful and cooperative social actions and actors, including the private sector. As the cases in Enduring Reform show, the democratic context of Latin America today presses businesspeople to endure, accept, and at times promote progressive change in unprecedented ways, even as they act to limit and constrain it. --Provided by publisher.