Student movement in 1968 in Mexico and its diffusion in the press

Abstract

The protests of young students during 1968 marked a before and after in Mexico and the world. At the national level, the fulfillment of the demands of the old Revolution of 1910 became totally evident as a failure in the face of the permanence of violence, corruption, the lack of democracy and the dictatorship of a single party, created as its heir, over many years. In this sense, the essay goes into the Mexican panorama in this time of change and repression, which is reconstructed through the consultation of the capital's press and its perception of the events that preceded the fateful October 2nd, with print media such as El Universal and Excélsior being central, particularly in the months of July to December of that year.