ABSTRACT
Democratic experiences anchored in certain territories or cultures bring about a potential for building global learnings. The author addresses the case of Mexico, one of the countries of Latin America where the crisis of the electoral system and democracy is more acute having been marked by years of draconian neoliberal policies. From his experience as a community lawyer in the Purépecha community of San Francisco Cherán in the province of Michoacán, he shows how a community revolted, organized itself and built a democratic, radical and communitarian powerbase grounded in local assemblies and their own representative bodies. In Cherán, democratic practices have led to the decommodification, deprofessionalization, depatriarchalization and decolonization of democracy.
