page_title: Superbarrio Gómez
section_title: Appearances
hierarchical_section_title: Superbarrio Gómez / Appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: Superbarrio Gómez in Mexico CityEspañol: Superbarrio Gómez en la Ciudad de México
context_page_description: Superbarrio Gómez is a Mexican "real-life superhero," celebrity, satirist, and organizer. Inspired by the Luchador wrestler El Santo, and his social-justice superhero persona in comics and movies, Superbarrio wears red tights and a red and yellow wrestler's mask. Rather than fight crime and corruption with violence, he uses his image to organize labor rallies and protests, and file petitions. Although he has been claimed to be Marco Rascón Córdova, the authorized biography Todos Somos Superbarrio states that although Rascón Córdova, a long-time social activist, did create the character, Marco was never Superbarrio, but it was rather a lesser-known political organizer, who was in turn substituted for a wrestler in the few times he actually fought on the ring.
  The character was created in 1987 by Asamblea de Barrios, an organization fighting for affordable housing after the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which left thousands of homeless. He began with stopping the evictions of families who paid rent. In 1988 he was informally declared candidate for the Mexican 1988 presidential election.
caption: Superbarrio, Mexico City, July 30, 2006
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