[1] Salvador Nava's political career began in 1958 when he decided to run for mayor of San Luis Potosí under the national Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) banner.
The army's occupation lasted three months in which the Navista Committee headquarters was raided and the opposition paper Tribunal ransacked and its presses destroyed.
Nava and what was labeled his "collaborators" were taken to Campo Militar Numero 1 and later transferred to Lecumberri Prison on charges of social dissolution, stockpiling of weapons and incitations of rebellion.
En route to Mexico City, Nava demanded the president remove Zapata from office due to the growing scandal and protests.
In the wake of the growing election fraud throughout Mexico, Nava's group hoped to align with the PAN-supported candidate to the north.
[1][3][4] Thirteen days after Zapata's election certification, he resigned the office at the behest of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
With the March of Dignity returning home believing they had succeeded, Salinas appointed Gonzalo Martinez Corbala, a PRI member, to the Governors office, instead of Nava.
On March 1, 1992, the MCD held its first convention, drawing over 60 indigenous, community labor, citizen, and human rights organizations.