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Citizens' Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Ciudadano) is a center-left political party in Mexico. It was founded in 1999 under the name Convergence for Democracy , which was then shortened to Convergence in 2002 and changed to Citizens' Movement in 2011.
Constitutionally, political parties in Mexico must promote the participation of the people in the democratic life of the country, contribute to the representation of the nation and citizens, and be the access through which citizens can participate in public office, through whatever programs, principles, and ideals they postulate. [20]
In Mexico, the social welfare program for low-income families was originally known as "Oportunidades", meaning "opportunities". It was eventually renamed " Prospera ", meaning "to prosper". [ 3 ] The program was established in 1997 and was designed to encourage families to send their children to school and health centres.
Opening Mexico: The making of a democracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Puig, Salvador Martí, Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz, and Claire Wright, eds. Democracy in Mexico: Attitudes and perceptions of citizens at national and local level. Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2014.
The Mexican constitution also makes a distinction between nationals of Mexico and citizens of Mexico. The legal means to acquire nationality and formal membership in a nation differ from the relationship of rights and obligations between a national and the nation, known as citizenship. [1] [2] [3]
36. Obligations of citizens. 39. The sovereignty of the nation comes from the people. 40. Mexico is constituted as a representative, democratic, federal Republic, composed of free and sovereign States in everything concerning its internal regime. 50. Division of powers: executive, legislative, and judicial. 76.
[12]: 49 [5] Arturo Rosales estimates 600,000 were repatriated in total between 1929 and 1936 [10] Research by California state senator Joseph Dunn concluded that 1.8 million had been repatriated. [79] Brian Gratton estimates that 355,000 people moved to Mexico from the US in the 1930s, 38% of them American born citizens and 2% naturalized ...
The Plan of Iguala established three central principles for the nascent Mexican state: the primacy of Roman Catholicism, the absolute political independence of Mexico, and full social equality for all social and ethnic groups in the new country. These are the "Three Guarantees" by which the Plan is sometimes known, summarized as "Religion ...