Silva and de Castro argue that young people in Latin America became interested in social movements when they found unique ways of expressing themselves politically. These youth wanted to express themselves through creativity therefore they began to use dance, drawings, graffiti along with other art to support nonhierarchical and non-institutionalized collectives; furthermore they preferred to support these because they focused on their local demands such as their neighborhoods, communities and schools. They began to do these political demonstrations because they wanted to express themselves and their individuality in order to obtain autonomy. They believed political parties were corrupt and detached from important issues such as poverty and
