Word: cabezas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organize themselves will succeed or, if they fail, what positions the inevitable factions will take. Two rival camps are slowly emerging, however. One camp is led by Heberto Castillo, an engineering professor at UNAM who organized the teacher faction which supported the students in 1968, and by Cervantes Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most charismatic student leaders. Castillo and other long experienced radicals spent two years in jail after the 1968 movement. While in Lecumberri prison (the same prison where Hyland is now staying) they greatly influenced student leaders such as Cabeza de Vaca who were also there...
Castillo and Cabeza de Vaca are currently campaigning throughout Mexico for a national student party. They argue that the demonstration of June 10 was a foolish waste of lives since President Echeverria had freed all student prisoners shortly before the protest, thus removing any reason to have the march in the first place. Generally they believe that Echeverria would like to create a more open democracy, but that powerful business interests connected with American firms will discourage the president from his good intentions unless a student party can push him the other...