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The Mexican Movement of 1968, also known as the Mexican Student Movement (Movimiento Estudiantil) was a social movement composed of a broad coalition of students from Mexico's leading universities that garnered widespread public support for political change in Mexico.
The massacre followed a series of large demonstrations called the Mexican Movement of 1968 and is considered part of the Mexican Dirty War, when the U.S.-backed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) government violently repressed political and social opposition.
The Batallón Olimpia was a counterinsurgent paramilitary group created by the Mexican government to surveil, spy on, pursue, sabotage, execute, murder, and disappear members of Mexican Movement of 1968 and to infiltrate the movement itself. [1] [2]
Mexico's president issued a formal apology for the brutal repression and killing of student protesters 56 years ago in the capital's Tlatelolco district.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — For the first time, a Mexican government body acknowledged on Monday that the massacre of student protesters at the capital's Plaza of the Three Cultures on Oct. 2, 1968, was ...
Luis González de Alba was born in the town of Charcas in the state of San Luis Potosí, but his family moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco, when he was ten years old.He studied psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), although he never practiced because, after completing his studies, he got involved in the Mexican Movement of 1968.
The environmental movement can trace its beginnings back to the protests of 1968. The environmental movement evolved from the anti-nuclear movement. France was particularly involved in environmental concerns. In 1968, the French Federation of Nature Protection Societies and the French branch of Friends of the Earth were formed and the
If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency on June 2, would she rule with gender in mind? The question has been raised by academics, humans rights organizations and activists ahead of the voting that ...