El desalojo de los vendedores ambulantes: paralelismos históricos en la ciudad de México

Abstract

The recent relocation of about 10 000 ambulatory vendors from the streets of Mexico City's Historical Center into newly constructed markets, has been compared to the massive market construction program carried out by Ernesto P. Uruchurtu during his regency from 1952 to 1966. This article investigates this parallel by looking closely at the policies and practices of Uruchurtu with reference to street vendors. It is argued that these policies had the effect of politicizing street vending by forcing vendors to organize within the PRI and established a series of practices that essentially guaranteed the rights of such organized vendors to markets