The Communal Assembly and its Operation in the State of Guerrero

  • Silvina Garcia Quezada Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
  • Víctor Manuel Arcos Vélez Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero

Abstract

This article explains how indigenous peoples have strengthened their identity through the community assembly, a means of traditional justice to solve basic local conflicts and to exercise decision-making in the indigenous community, and that it has been key in the recognition for the first time in the history of Guerrero of a town with community government in Ayutla. Applying documentary research, face-to-face observation of some communal assemblies and analyzing from social anthropology the uses and customs of native peoples, it was possible to glimpse the development of means of solution to conflicts dealt with in the assemblies and how it is that prior to the treatment of conflicts there is a ceremonial citizen dialogue. This effective form of organization is building a new system from the local. It is one of the forms of peasant organization that has the potential to take root and consolidate itself as a force of resistance to the long-standing policy of destruction of the indigenous world.

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Published
2021-06-22
How to Cite
Garcia Quezada, S., & Arcos Vélez, V. M. (2021). The Communal Assembly and its Operation in the State of Guerrero. RICSH Iberoamerican Journal of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 10(19), 360 - 377. https://doi.org/10.23913/ricsh.v10i19.248
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Research Articles