The 1960s in Mexico: The Incubation of the 1968 Social Movement

“El movimiento estudiantil es una ‘algarada sin importancia’”Presidente Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1968)In this article the author puts forward as an explanatory hypothesis of the 1968 student social movement its political modernizing capacity as a result of social change and the violence that this transfo...

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Autor: Pozas Horcasitas, Ricardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/65792
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmcpys/article/view/65792
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:1968
student movement
Cold War
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
19th Olympic Games
political violence
social movements
Mexico
movimiento estudiantil
Guerra Fría
XIX Olimpiadas
violencia política
movimientos sociales
México
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Sumario:“El movimiento estudiantil es una ‘algarada sin importancia’”Presidente Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1968)In this article the author puts forward as an explanatory hypothesis of the 1968 student social movement its political modernizing capacity as a result of social change and the violence that this transformative pressure unleashed against it, on the part of the governing coalitions, since the beginning of the street demonstrations from July 26 until October 2, when the government led by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz ordered the killing of students opposed to state institutions, at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, in Mexico City’s downtown.