Voices of Mexico no. 106
Our Voice
October 2 On the night of October 1, the esplanade in front of University City’s Central Administration Building was dressed in mourning, and the iconic structure revealed its grandeur with a moving, impressive light show: a peace dove, stabbed, injured, and bleeding was pictured together with the Olympic Games logo and the forceful phrase, “Never Again.”
October 2, 2018 was an autumn morning on which, as only infrequently is the case nowadays, Mexico City was still the most transparent region. At a solemn session of the Chamber of Deputies, the gold-letter inscription on the Wall of Honor of the Legislative Palace was unveiled, with the National University of Mexico (unam) and National Polytechnic Institute (ipn) communities as witnesses. It reads, “To the 1968 Student Movement.” The ceremony, an act of commemoration and vindication, takes place in a university and polytechnic atmosphere: you could hear the traditional cries of “Goya!” (unam) and “Huelum!” (ipn). But, from 1 to 43, other students are remembered as the crowd shouts out the numbers of the missing Ayotzinapa students, thus joining the past to the present.
Editorial
Our Voice
Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez
Context
The University, 50 Years after
The 1968 Student Movement
Interview with UNAM
Rector Dr. Enrique Graue
Leonardo Curzio
From the Youth Revolt
To the Restoration of the Outmoded
(Or, as Robert Graves said,
“Goodbye to all that”)
Mario Ojeda Revah
The Canadian Scene
Graciela Martínez-Zalce Sánchez
U.S. Universities,
Racial and Student Conflicts
Juan Carlos Barrón
The Hymn to Life that Was 1968
Carlos Martínez Assad
Mexico in the 1960s
Ricardo Pozas Horcasitas
Sounds of a Generation
Julia E. Palacios Franco
Personal Accounts
Lessons for Today
René A. Jiménez Ornelas
An Information Brigade
Activist Remembers ’68
Joel Ortega Juárez
Legacy
The Tail of the ’68 Comet
Jorge Javier Romero Vadillo
“Commemorating Should Be More
About Questions than Answers”
Mónica Maristain
Movement
The 1968 Student Movement
And Gender Equality
Guillermo Boils
Youth Counterculture in 1968
Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón
Reviews
Not Even All the Bullets Can Beat Us
The Literature on ’68
Diego Bugeda Bernal
A Documentary Shines a New Light
Liliana Cordero Marines
Art and Culture
1968 Around the World
Armando Fonseca
Comic Strip Chronology
Santiago Moyao
The Influence of ’68
On Political Cartoonists
Alma Soto Zárraga
Mexican Illustration, 1968-2018
A Conversation with
Fabricio Vanden Broeck
And Éricka Martínez
Abril Castillo
Indigenous Women Embroider
Their Rights in the Shadow of ’68
William H. Beezley
Pioneering Artist
A Conversation with Mónica Mayer
Valeria Guzmán
In Memory of Tlatelolco
by Rosario Castellanos
Memory, 2018
by Mercedes Alvarado
Changing the World
The Stories of Four Members of the
“Avándaro Nation”
Mariana Velasco and Gustavo Marcovich
The Mexico 68/18
100 Poster Collection
Santiago Robles