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A group of prostitutes begins an insurrection against the owners in the Mexican city of Veracruz

102
years ago

05 March 1922,

A group of prostitutes begins an insurrection against the owners in the Mexican city of Veracruz. Faced with too high an income, they cut the streets by burning mattresses and started a strike. Most tenants of the city met. They formed the Tenants Revolutionary Union.

Source:

D. Arturo García Niño, “Bottom left, 22an. Veracruz Tenement Movement in six primary sources” (Pacarina Sur. Latin American Critical Thinking Journal 37. nº)

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