Abstract

MUTOLO, Andrea. Catholicism and civil society in Mexico City, between ruptures and cohesions throughout the 1980s. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.79, pp.57-75.  Epub May 21, 2021. ISSN 2448-8488.

The 1980s in Mexico City was a time of important social and political change. A dialogue and proximity between the Catholic Church and the political institutions was generated that, in some way, opened a widespread, formal collaboration with Catholicism in many popular sectors of the population, also with the capital’s upper classes. This stage was of great importance, when one considers that the wealthy social classes and the popular sectors coincided in the development of a common project with the Archdiocese of Mexico. The Social Swap (which consisted of the purchase of debt from the Government of Mexico by the Catholic Church) at the end of the 1980s was a clear example of this change, whereby the government, the Catholic Church and businessmen formalized this alliance. Running parallel to this process, the popular areas of the city saw the coming together of the parish priests with the neighborhoods so as to promote the Popular Housing Renovation program, which partially reconfigured the urban geography of the capital within just a few years.

Keywords : Civil society; Mexico City; Archdiocese of Mexico; Catholic church; State.

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