ABSTRACT
The Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral in Guadalajara (CEREAL) started like many organizations that tried to offer workers advice for unionizing. There was already a CEREAL opened in Mexico City, working with different unionized workers to fight against government-appointed authoritarian leaders who were ordered to shut down democratization efforts, including the legal defense of union and labor rights. This CEREAL became the model for the organization in Guadalajara, Jalisco, a region in the Western part of Mexico that was being touted as the new Mexican Silicon Valley. 1
