La democratización de la gestión de las plazas de comercio popular en el centro histórico de la Ciudad de México

• Main Author: Caroline Stamm
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos 2007-06-01
• Series: Trace
• Subjects: ambulantaje; centro histórico; Ciudad de México; plazas de comercio popular; políticas públicas
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/trace/654

At the beginning of the 90´s, the Program for the Improvement of Street Vending was implemented in the historical centre of Mexico City, with the objective of relocating street vendors in more than twenty popular commercial centres. Despite the national context of the democratization of the political system and the questioning of corporatism, this policy took place in the tradition of corporate regulation of street vending, characterized by the negotiations between political authorities and the leaders representing street vendors’ associations. Nevertheless, new associations, independents or sympathizers of the prd, have more recently emerged, particularly in the case of popular commercial centers, which gives rise to debate on the changes to the conditions of public management of street vendors and speculate an evolution towards a multiform public action.