Abstract This article revisits public debates in Mexico around two distinctive causes that found an undeniable impulse in the 1970s: the international demands to rebalance the financial and commercial agreements towards enhancing economic growth in the least developed countries and the global human rights agenda. The article traces the Mexican government’s interpretation of these causes and their intertwinement back to the 1917 Constitution that resulted from the Mexican Revolution and argues that this root created a common sense among a variety of unexpected actors which, Continue reading → Continue reading →