Cultural Ruptures in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Posada de los Malavidos

Abstract

In the present work, one of the festivities of the town of San Luis Tlaxialtemalco, Xochimilco, before the COVID-19 pandemic is described, since due to said event a rupture has been created in the daily life of said population, affecting not only the sociocultural practices of the people, but also their ways of relating and organizing themselves in the face of a global historical event, which has also highlighted various problems that affect the most vulnerable areas of the world, such as the case of the original peoples of the Mexico City, where an increase in inequalities and social inequities is visible, such as labor informality, lack of resources in the health sector, the increase in poverty and that undoubtedly also endangers cultural expressions that permeate identity and culture of the aforementioned population.