El Movimiento de los 400 Pueblos

As I was taxi cabbing through the streets of Mexico City journeying from the airport toward my pre-arranged living quarters for the week of the IAC, alternative reality quickly set in when I observed about 300 Indigenous men and women staging a protest fueled by anger and frustration, all of whom, by the way appeared to be naked!

El Movimiento de los 400 Pueblos (400 Villages) has been protesting naked in Mexico City since 2002.

At least 300 men stand on cans and dance naked (my observance was that women were well represented) in some of the city's major squares and streets, whilst the women (and men, again my observance) from the movement collect money from passers-by and give out pamphlets detailing their cause. The protestestors are farmers from Veracruz and they hold marches and protests outside of the Mexican Congress in an effort to bring Delgado, current governor Patricio Chirinos and others to trial. The farmers accused former Governor of Veracruz, Dante Delgado from the Convergence party, of obtaining by force, more than 100 hectares (acres) of land in May of 1992.  read more »