The article analyzes political conflict in Mexico through a powerful social movement that erupted in the massive shantytown of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl between 1969 and 1973. In the summer of 1969, after decades of abysmal living conditions, the residents of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl (Neza) launched a payment strike to demand the federal government expropriate the land from private land developers, with the intent to gain urban infrastructure and formal property titles. The rebellion that plunged Ciudad Neza into a state of perpetual strife reflects a juncture in Mexican history when the urban shantytown emerged as a distinct and influential site for mass politics. This article historicizes Mexico's urban shantytown as a political space where the ruling party's entrenched clientelism contended with embryonic forms of local democracy. Revealing numerous contradictions, this case study is emblematic of how the urban periphery was a precursor to the vibrant yet incomplete democratization that would come to define national politics in Mexico and much of Latin America in the 1980s.

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墨西哥棚户区：内萨瓦尔科约特尔城的民主开放，1969-1976

这篇文章通过 1969 年至 1973 年间在 Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl 大型棚户区爆发的强大社会运动分析了墨西哥的政治冲突。 1969 年夏天，在经历了数十年的恶劣生活条件之后，Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl（Neza）的居民发起了一项支付罢工要求联邦政府从私人土地开发商那里征用土地，目的是获得城市基础设施和正式的财产所有权。使内萨城陷入永久冲突状态的叛乱反映了墨西哥历史上的一个转折点，当时城市棚户区成为大众政治的独特而有影响力的场所。本文将墨西哥的城市棚户区历史化为一个政治空间，在那里执政党根深蒂固的附庸主义与地方民主的雏形相抗衡。