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Publicado el 4 de octubre de 201812:55 pm

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Por Sasha Hartzell

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Sasha Hartzell | El gato montés diarioA la espera decomenzar la marcha, los estudiantes de la UNAM seturnaron para cantar en la Ciudad de México el martes 2de octubre, en una manifestación en memoria delmovimiento estudiantil de 1968 en el que más de cienparticipantes fueron asesinados en la misma área 50 añosantes. El equipo de limpieza de calles de la ciudad miró,esperando que pasaran los manifestantes.  

Esta semana, la Universidad de Arizona está recordando el

histórico levantamiento estudiantil en la Ciudad de México,

en honor a su 50 aniversario. Profesores locales y de la

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la universidad

más grande de América Latina, están colaborando para

conmemorar a los estudiantes mexicanos de 1968 que

lucharon por un sistema educativo más democrático y

mantener la universidad prácticamente libre de matrícula. 

Aunque cientos de personas murieron en la masacre de

Tlatelolco el 2 de octubre, los estudiantes triunfaron y hoy la

matrícula sigue siendo de un mínimo de 25 centavos por

estudiante. 

Mientras tanto, en la Ciudad de México, los estudiantes están

recordando el movimiento del '68 de manera diferente.

Apenas unas semanas antes del 50 aniversario, los

estudiantes que protestan pací�camente en la UNAM somos

atacados por una pandilla de choque, parte de la red

conocida localmente como porros ; Ahora, una vez más, los

estudiantes se están movilizando. 

          RELACIONADO: Centro conecta UA y México a través

de una asociación internacional

El lunes 3 de septiembre, en la Ciudad de México, estudiantes

de secundaria y universitarios organizaron una manifestación

en el enorme campus urbano de la UNAM. Exigían una

explicación del reciente secuestro y asesinato de una

estudiante de secundaria, Miranda Mendoza, y por mejores

condiciones escolares en general, más seguridad, más

maestros, más transparencia, cuando aproximadamente 40

porros llegaron y comenzaron a atacar a los estudiantes con

pipas y cuchillos. , cócteles molotov, botas y puños. 

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Vestidos de rojo, miembros de El Frente Popular Fransisco

Villa , el Frente Popular de Fransisco Villa , participaron en

la marcha por el 50 aniversario de la masacre de Tlatelolco

en el movimiento estudiantil de 1968. La organización

marxista llevaba pancartas que decían: "No olviden el 2 de

octubre, es la lucha combativa".

“Porros are, among other things, groups of aggressors,

golpeadores, who are paid by UNAM’s authorities or even

sometimes by the same Mexican government, PRI. It’s sort of

cataloged as a paramilitary group,” said Felix Roberto Lopez

Roldán, a Philosophy student at UNAM. 

Paramilitaries have been totally discredited in the country,

however, according to Dr. William Beezley from the UA

History Department. “No one in Mexico can rely on

paramilitary again. But using porros is a way to get around it.”

In general, porros are technically students- it is less obvious

they work for outside interests, sparking less public outrage. 

In a recorded special message, UNAM Director Enrique Graue

said the attack was staged by people “who represent outside

outside interests that evidently want to destabilize the

university,” though he failed to specify who. 

In the Sept. 3rd attack, cellphone footage captured UNAM

security standing by, refusing to protect the protesters. One

guard was recorded saying they had orders from above not

to intervene. “For two hours porros attacked and UNAM’s

security didn’t do anything — they were there and didn’t do

anything,” said Camila Zuleta, a highschool student from the

protest. 

Fourteen students were injured and two hospitalized. “They

got stabbed and one girl got hit in the head with a pipe. One

of them even got a piece of his ear ripped o�,” said Roldán.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 2, a group of UNAM students in

Tlatelolco, Mexico City paste a print commemorating those

killed in the 1968 student movement  before joining in a

city wide march. Students covered the walls of  Tlatelolco

buildings with messages about the 1968 movement, the 43

Ayotzinapa students who were disappeared in 2014, and

the porro attack at UNAM in September.

These gangs of porros have historically been utilized to

repress students in Mexico. “50-60 years ago it was some

students and young people working for the government

speci�cally to try to control other students,” said Dr. Eugenia

Allier, a UNAM professor who spoke at the UA last Thursday.

“Now they try to control students but it doesn’t work

anymore, you cannot control half a million students, not in

the same way as in 68.

Dr. Allier says now porros are only able to provoke- which is

exactly what they did this September. Their attack provoked

tens of thousands of students to take the streets in a new

student movement, almost exactly 50 years after the last

mass mobilization.

UNAM students and supporting faculty went on strike, closing

most of the faculties in the main campus. On Sept. 5th,

thousands of students rallied, turning the nearby metro

stations and main campus into a sea of chanting bodies. 

Again they mobilized on Sept 13th, marching miles through

the streets of Mexico City to the Zocalo, the city’s center.

UNAM faculty and employees, community members, and

participants  from the 1968 student movement walked

alongside current students in solidarity. 

“The education model in México is very authoritarian and

conservative. The student movement makes this structure

shake,” said Dr. Hugo Luis Sánchez Gudiño, a UNAM

professor of Political and Social Sciences. 

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On Tuesday, Oct. 2, students in Mexico City marched from

the sight of  the historic Tlatelolco Massacre, where over

100 participants of the 1968 student movement were

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killed, to the city center. The students  organized

themselves by college, gathering under banners and

wearing  matching bracelets to identify each other.

Through assemblies, UNAM students from all faculties have

collaborated to draft a petition of seven demands:

punishment for both the puppets and puppeteers who were

responsible for the Sept. 3rd attacks, increased

democratization of the university with more student, faculty

and worker control and participation, increased funding for

schools and students, increased security- particularly for

women, the eradication of porros, the removal of University

Director Graue and of the university’s head of security, and

the continuation of free tuition.

“The problem is the director, who is the highest authority in

UNAM, is chosen by the government council, formed by

people who are from the government- these last years from

the PRI- so that has something to do with everything that’s

passed at the school,” said UNAM biology student Vanessa

Peláez, marching in the demonstration on the 13th. The

students are demanding a system overhaul, making the

director’s election a democratic process within the school

itself.  

These issues have been simmering for a long time but the

thing that made everything explode, made everyone take to

the streets, was the attack of the porros, said Alejandra Lopez

Lejano, a UNAM philosophy graduate, “The movement is not

just from UNAM but has extended to all the public education

in the country, even private universities are participating in

topics that involve education and security.”

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media and militarization

Yet this budding, country-wide movement has been largely

absent from US and international mainstream media. Dr.

Hugo suggests the imminent historical change of political

power in México could be responsible. 

“Today, everyone wants to be well with the President-Elect,

because they have kept silent on the subject,” said Dr. Hugo.

“Having dealt with the issue would have generated

discomfort with the AMLO team.” This December, PRI, the

political party who held o�ce for 77 of the past 89 years, will

make way for the new leftist president-elect, Andrés Manuel

López Obrador (AMLO). 

La UA, que estableció una colaboración formal con la UNAM

en 2015, está más cerca de los eventos en México que la

mayoría. "Es importante que los estudiantes de la UA y otras

personas vean cómo los estudiantes pueden involucrarse en

la política y cambiar o intentar cambiar su sociedad", dijo el

Dr. Beezley, quien habló el martes pasado en el Programa

Especial de la UA, México-1968 . Dijo que los estudiantes y los

maestros de ambos lados deberían adoptar la actitud, "esta

es la oportunidad de aprender realmente de otra persona", y

luego hacerlo.  

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