On the left, replica of the "March of Silence" organised by students in Mexico City in 2018. On the right, march on the Z\u00f3calo, also in Mexico City, but during the movements of 1968. Photographs: Global Voices. All Rights Reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n
Today, the struggle to
\nstop violence in Mexico continues. On September 6, 30.000 university students,
\nincluding those from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
\nMexico's largest public university, gathered for a massive student
\ndemonstration.<\/p>\n
This protest was The students there were The protesters\u2019 general They also demand the expulsion from Today's demonstrations The government viewed these protests as an attempted coup d'\u00e9tat by Communist groups and a threat to national security, and responded aggressively with heavy-handed use of force.<\/p>\n At the time, the Several marches, sit-ins, On October 2, 1968, over Over 300 people were killed and the tragedy As the anniversary of Fifty years later, Animal Pol\u00edtico<\/em> has published a Other journalists, like\u00a0Leopoldo G\u00f3mez, have taken a closer Fifty Endemic violence in Mexico, where more than\u00a070 people are murdered daily, is only one partial cause for the protests.<\/p>\n Endemic violence in Historian Octavio Sol\u00eds notes the To each repressive act or attempt This article was On the left, replica of the "March of Silence" organised by students in Mexico City in 2018. On the right, march on the Z\u00f3calo, also in Mexico City, but during the movements of 1968. Photographs: Global Voices. All Rights Reserved. Today, the struggle to stop violence in Mexico continues. On September 6, 30.000 university students,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\norganized in response to events, three days before, in which shock groups, known as porros<\/em>, allegedly attacked students
\nwithin the College of Sciences and Humanities. <\/p>\n
\npeacefully calling for an increase in human resources for the faculty and
\ncalling for justice for fellow student Miranda Mendoza, who was killed in
\nAugust.<\/p>\n
\ndemands include increased security within the dozens of UNAM's faculties,
\nschools, centers, and research institutions. <\/p>\n
\nuniversity premises of the porro<\/em>
\ngroups, who\u00a0allegedly receive
\npolitical and economic bonuses in exchange for violently attacking student
\ndemonstrations and destabilizing university life.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are the
\ngrandchildren of 68\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nsymbolically mark the 50th anniversary of the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 which demanded the
\nrelease of political prisoners, the resignation of the\u00a0ruling party, and expansion
\nof political liberties as well as democratic changes to eradicate
\nauthoritarianism.<\/p>\n
\ngovernment viewed these protests as an attempted coup d'\u00e9tat by Communist
\ngroups and a threat to national security, and responded aggressively with
\nheavy-handed use of force.<\/p>\n
\ndemonstrations, and protests ensued, including the March of Silence on
\nSeptember 13, 1968, during which demonstrators covered their mouths with white
\nbandannas to protest the government's silence about the Movement and its use of
\nbrutal force against students.<\/p>\n
\n10.000 students organized a peaceful march in the Tlatelolco area of Mexico
\nCity, and their gathering was repressed with extreme violence by the Mexican
\ngovernment. <\/p>\n
\nis remembered today as the Massacre of Tlatelolco.<\/p>\n
\nthese historical events approached, the feeling among students was one of
\nstrong solidarity with their predecessors: they decided to replicate the March
\nof Silence on its anniversary date, September 13, to honor the people who
\nmarched on these same streets for similar causes than the ones which motivate
\ntoday\u2019s marches.<\/p>\n
\nmarches, memorials, and photographs contrasting protests both past and present
\nhave been shared through social media with hashtags such as #MarchaDelSilencio and \u00a0#A50Del68.<\/p>\n
\nseries of chronicles from 1968 on the same
\ndates as the historical marches.<\/p>\n
\nlook at the student movement of yesterday and today: \u201cThe protest is no longer about
\nrepression, but governmental incompetence. In 1968, protesters fought against
\ngovernment excesses; now they demand more: they want good governance.<\/p>\n
\nyears later, the demand is the same: an end to impunity. In 1968, they wanted
\nto end impunity within the government itself; in 2018, the call is to end
\nimpunity for criminals with whom the government is secretly doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nMexico, where more than\u00a070 people are murdered
\ndaily, is only one partial cause for the protests. This year also marks the
\nfourth anniversary of the\u00a043 missing students of
\nAyotzinapa, each of whom the students remembered.<\/p>\n
\nsymbolic force of the 1968 protests in which \u201cimagination defeated power\u201d: \u201cThe
\nstudent movement of 1968 gathered the demands of several social spheres that
\nhad been unable to find a way to speak out. <\/p>\n
\nat control, an imaginative and forceful response arose. The movement only
\nlasted two months but, as it is often said, some days, weeks, and months can
\ncontain whole years in themselves. Like these young people's bet for silence
\n[during the march of the same name] that turned forgetting to dignity: a vivid
\nimage that lives on today, half a century later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\npreviously published by Global Voices and can be read here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"