“The sea is our bread”: Interrupting green neoliberalism in Mexico

- “Green” neoliberalism adversely affects people and resources.
- Neoliberal policies have increasingly severe impacts on Indigenous fishing.
- Neoliberal visions of development are contested and resisted.

This article analyzes how the intensification of neoliberal policies and the use of privatization to govern access to the ocean and its resources are producing the conditions for the dispossession of Indigenous fishing customary rights as well as resistance practices that interrupt neoliberal policies. This article highlights the role of actors beyond the state in producing the specific junctures at which the vocation of the Indigenous peoples in the Tehuantepec Isthmus in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is changed to become a “center of sustainable development.”