Can nonviolent civil disobedience effectively counter the brutality of organized crime and government corruption in Mexico? What impact can people's movements have against such odds? Pietro Ameglio, a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social movements in Mexico addresses this challenge in an interview with Everard Meade, the director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. (#29171)

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