Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began on July 23 with a fight between students of two high schools. The police riot squad (the Granaderos) intervened and used clubs and rifle butts to disperse the students. Several students were seriously hurt. In Mexico, the high schools are part of the University system. The Mexican constitution states that the University is to be autonomous -- i.e., self-governing and self-policing. The use of city police to break up a high school riot is thus in violation of the constitution...
...applied on the government by seizing public buses and building road blocks near the schools to prevent the police from coming near the high schools. More police brutality ensued. Students started sleeping over-night in the schools to keep the police out. On August 1 at 2 a.m., the Mexican army surrounded one of the high schools. The more than 100 students sleeping there were told to leave. When they refused, an army bazooka was used to blow open one of the doors. The army then marched in and forcibly pulled out the students. 20 students were hurt and three...
...this point and were to play an even smaller part in the events that were to follow.) Portraits of Che Guevara had been adopted by the students as a symbol of their movement. The students explained that as they were willing to give their lives to defend the Mexican constitution and preserve freedom of speech and the autonomy of the University, they felt that the portrait of a man who had given up everything and died for his beliefs was a fitting symbol. This was taken by the government, however, as further proof of the communist inspiration of the movement...
...justify their conspiracy on the theoretical grounds that they are only instituting the New Politics--that policy is only legal and action only justified when the people participate in making the decision. In reality it usually means involving the previously apathetic white middle class and the black and brown (Mexican-American) communities in partisan politics...
...many states this has already meant a distinct change in the style of politics. Where minority group votes have literally been bought for decades in Texas--usually by the conservative machine--the new militancy within first the black community, then the brown community (Mexican-American), and now the student community have forced a change. Each minnority is making its own decisions about its goals and needs whether in minority caucuses at conventions or in community elections...